Word: patriarchally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were plenty of protests when the Y first opened. Orthodox rabbis complained that the building would be a center for Christian missions, and veiled Moslem women paraded the streets protesting against "this proselytizing organization." Jerusalem's Latin-rite Roman Catholic patriarch denounced the Y in a pastoral letter. Since most of the members in the early days were British civil servants and Arab Christians, Palestinian Jews regarded it as a center for Arab espionage during Israel's war for independence. After the city was partitioned in 1948, membership dropped...
...mention of the Democratic party the members of this group see a montage of ward heelers and ward bosses, cigars in mouths, poker hands on the table. For when Case, Rockefeller, Scranton, and Lindsay entered politics, the Democratic party in the northeast--despite its noble patriarch Franklin Roosevelt--was dominated by Catholic immigrants, largely Irish and Italian. Its supreme symbol was Alfred E. Smith. Case, a minister's son and the descendant of an old family, chose the Republicans...
Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople, "first among equals" of the Orthodox prelates, proposed the conference, but, following tradition, nei ther he nor the other major patriarchs were present. Chairing the secret daily sessions for Athenagoras was his deputy, Metropolitan Meliton of Heliopolis. Per haps the most influential man present was Metropolitan Nikodim of Lenin grad, the chief diplomat-bishop of the world's largest Orthodox body, the Pa triarchate of Moscow...
...marriage that would take into account new medical discoveries. "We have learned many things since Aristotle," he said. "I urge you, brothers, let us avoid a new Galileo case-one is certainly enough in the history of the church." Even more explicit was Maximos IV Saigh, the Melchite Patriarch of Antioch. Speaking, as always, in French rather than the Council's official Latin, the Patriarch admitted that "the immense majority" of Catholics did not practice what the church teaches on birth control. "Shouldn't the official position of the church in the matter be revised in the light...
...father died two years after his birth in 1905, so his young mother moved back with her parents. There, while she faded back into the role of a dutiful daughter, the child grew up as the darling of all, particularly his grandfather, Charles Schweitzer,* a white-bearded Old Testament patriarch who tyrannized his own children and indulged his grandson...