Word: patriarchalism
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...million Catholics in Asia, Africa and much of Latin America. Concerned about the struggle of the church with Communism in these areas, Pius XII appointed one of the Vatican's wisest old hands as prefect: Gregory Peter XV Cardinal Agagianian, an Armenian who holds the ancient title of Patriarch of Cilicia...
...everything else about Murder (She Said) is handsome too. Messrs. Justice and Kennedy are agreeable objects, the one as a bed-ridden patriarch, the other as a sympathetic country doctor from this side of the water. The direction is brisk, the screenplay properly ominous, and some one has written a remarkably lively musical score, which is performed on what sounds like a bar-room harpsichord. One trusts that Miss Rutherford's long deferred American fame will now at length, be firmly secured...
...Rangoon to return a 1955 state visit from Burma's Prime Minister U Nu, Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion, 75, embarked upon a program unlikely to win cheers from rigidly orthodox religious leaders back in Jerusalem. Once the demands of protocol had been discharged, the patriarch of the Jewish homeland intended to indulge a longtime fascination with Buddhism by making a ten-day contemplative retreat at the home of U Nu, himself a Buddhist monk. Meantime, livening up the diplomatic garden parties, Ben-Gurion wowed his hosts by showing up attired like a potbellied pixy in Burma...
...been the Russians who were skittish about the relationship. When the World Council was founded, in the old Stalin days, the Russian Orthodox Church refused to join, on the grounds that this was a capitalist plot to dominate the churches. Under the Khrushchev regime, Moscow's Patriarch Alexei let it be known that the World Council might not be so bad after all, and the ecumenical leaders stepped up their efforts to bring the Russians in, finally succeeded when the Russians formally applied for membership last spring (TIME...
Besides Athenagoras, two other absent eminences dominated the deliberations. One was Pope John XXIII, whose nine years' residence in Istanbul as apostolic delegate has made him exceptionally knowledgeable about Eastern Orthodoxy and sympathetic to it. The other was Moscow's Patriarch Alexei, represented by Archbishop Nikodemus, 32, the youngest bishop in the Russian Church...