Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public office, hold government jobs (the under secretaries of three government ministries are now women), and even divorce their husbands. Their husbands, on the other hand, can no longer be married to more than one wife at a time, unless the first wife gives her consent. Since the matrimonial reform was put into effect, Iranian courts have consented to only one ménage à trois...
...Shah's attempts at political reform have been less thorough. He reopened Parliament in 1963, but uses it mostly for window dressing. All candidates must be approved by SAVAK, his powerful security police, and elections are so arranged as to give the Shah's Iran Novin (New Iran) Party an overwhelming majority of the seats. The Shah, in fact, makes little pretense of being a democrat. "For 2,500 years," he says, "we have had a monarchical system, which implies a certain amount of imposed authority." His word is law, and he keeps his Prime Minister, Amirabass Hoveida...
Presiding Bishop John E. Hines pronounced the convention one of the most constructive in years. The delegates approved a report of a commission headed by Harvard President Nathan Pusey, calling for a reform in the training of Episcopal clergymen. Also adopted was the Presiding Bishop's $3,000,000-a-year program to aid urban Negroes-which Hines called a major step toward meeting the crises of the cities...
...Rome last week, Pope Paul VI opened a month-long synod of the Catholic bishops with a clear warning to walk, not run, toward further reform. "Immense dangers" confront Catholicism, he said, "insidious dangers, which even from within the church find utterance in the work of teachers and writers." After that keynote, following a concelebrated Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, the foregathered prelates knew that their role in the sessions ahead would at best be advisory and consultative...
...Ireland and Pericle Cardinal Felici, the secretary-general of Vatican II-are generally regarded as conservatives. The agenda ignores the two most bothersome issues facing the church today-priestly celibacy and birth control. Instead, the bishops are expected to focus on a quintet of less pressing questions: canon-law reform, updating doctrine, seminary renewal, mixed marriages and liturgy...