Word: recant
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...insisting that the earth revolved around the sun was pushing things too far, and the church got in a terrible tear. The idea that the earth was not the center of the universe held disturbing theological and philosophical implications, unacceptable to Rome. Galileo was urged, finally forced, to recant. He spent his last years in a villa outside Florence in an enforced isolation that was more like imprisonment...
...perhaps only fair that it should seek a truce with its right-wing extremists. Now word has come from Bishop Bernard Flanagan of Worcester, whose diocese includes the Slaves' farm, that the excommunication of the aging, ailing Feeney was removed secretly in 1972 without a requirement that he recant. The Vatican's doctrinal office acted, with at least pro forma approval by the Pope, after a plea from Cushing's successor, Cardinal Humberto Medeiros...
...South Korea's President for nearly two years after the overthrow of Syngman Rhee in 1960. The charge against Yun was that he had contributed $1,000 to antigovernment student demonstrators. "The money was intended to revive democracy in Korea," admitted Yun, who refused to recant. If convicted, he could receive the death penalty...
...they do not, there looms the shadow of the dilemma that undid Johnson in 1968: Nixon cannot defeat the invasion by intensifying the ground war, yet he dare not wholly retreat and thus recant on his pledges. So, once more, the next President of the U.S. may owe his job to events in a tiny, alien land 10,000 miles from Washington...
History's most famous diet-Worms -is having its 450th anniversary this week, and Roman Catholics in that town on the Rhine have appealed to Pope Paul VI to say a good word for Martin Luther, whose refusal to recant there precipitated the Protestant Reformation. Referring to the Pope's acknowledgment that the Roman Church was partly responsible for the Protestant-Catholic split, the six Worms laymen and clergymen who signed the appeal called for a papal statement "bringing detente in the ever-present tensions regarding the excommunication of Martin Luther...