Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that in the past years Japan has increasingly become a distant part of the West, I am no judge here; but as to Israel, for instance, it seems to me that it stands apart from the Western world in that its state system if fundamentally linked to religion...
After reading the specifications of the ten theologians for a new Pope, I can see that the problem doesn't lie in finding a Pope to fit the Catholic religion, but in finding a religion that fits the Catholic Pope they want...
Israel They would have "administrative autonomy" exercised through an elected "administrative council." It would govern the affairs only of the "Arab residents" in such fields as education, religion, transportation, commerce, health and social welfare. It would also organize a local police force and law courts, but presumably subject to Israeli veto...
...five-month load, and a blank check. A tall, slim, aristocratic man, Giulini is the rare maestro who is truly loved by his musicians. They may grumble about his perfectionism or his occasionally erratic tempi. But, says Victor Aitay, Chicago's co-concertmaster, "he approaches music as a religion, like the devoted Catholic he is. He feels his be lief so convincingly that it seems to us that this is the right way to play...
...candor. But how would the Cardinal's qualities prove out when tested by the intricacies of church policy? During his years in Venice, parish priests found him open-minded, but unwilling to budge a millimeter when doctrine was at stake. "He is a hardliner on orthodoxy," says the religion editor of Venice's leading daily. Luciani has been hostile to the worker-priest movement and to many workers' Communist attitudes, but has defended their economic rights...