Word: prays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Principal Elihu Oshinsky stopped the prayers in keeping with the Supreme Court's decisions against compulsory religious exercises in public schools. Appalled, 15 parents-Protestant, Catholic and Jewish-organized PRAY (Prayer Rights for American Youth) and sued in federal court, claiming that their tots had a constitutional right to "voluntary" school expression of "their love and affection for Almighty...
...those five-year-olds to say those prayers, which means, he said, official coercion, however benign. When the case reached the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, it avoided the voluntary question by ruling simply that the First Amendment does not compel a state to let citizens pray in a state-owned facility whenever they wish to do so. Judge Henry J. Friendly told PRAY: "The plaintiffs must content themselves with having their children say these prayers before 9 a.m. and after...
Many bishops readily admit that these and other documents of Vatican II show some omissions and outright failures. The ecclesiastical legislation had to be shaped and sometimes compromised to gain the approval of disparate men-Italian country bishops who have seldom seen Protestants, and Dutch prelates who pray with them almost daily; U.S. cardinals whose most pressing concern is a multimillion-dollar building fund, and Asian missionaries whose church is a Quonset hut. Methodist Observer Albert C. Outler of Texas says that "several of the decrees and declarations are substandard; several are no better than mediocre." One of the worst...
Almost 1,000 Cuban exiles milled anxiously about the lobby and observation platforms of Miami's International Airport. "Do you have someone coming over?" one Cuban asked another. The man crossed his fingers. "We wait. We hope. We pray," he said...
Pope Paul VI took the floor of St. Peter's to promulgate two decrees: one on revelation (TIME, Nov. 5), which redefines the relationship between Scripture and tradition; another on the laity, which promotes laymen from the classical "pray, pay and obey" position to a role of Christian witness with less supervision from the clergy. Paul also announced that he will start proceedings for the beatification of Popes Pius XII and John XXIII, which could lead to canonizing them as saints...