Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terms with the Roman Catholic Church, to which more than 90% of all Italians belong. In a conciliatory open letter to an Italian bishop-quickly dubbed "the Berlinguer encyclical"-the Communist leader has provoked an unprecedented dialogue with the church by proffering assurances that his party not only respects religion but sees it as a possible stimulus toward building a true socialist society. Criticizing religious "intolerence" in Eastern Europe, Berlinguer said-heresy of Communist heresies-that Marxism was not an "ideological creed" but an analytical method, and that his party was "lay and democratic, and as such not theist, atheist...
...where three missionaries were hung at that time." The bodies were dangling from the cross up on a hill, overlooking the bay which was populated by French ships. The devoutly passive Passamaquoddies lost control, erupted--telling their intruders to go away, saying they didn't want their Catholic religion...
Converting to a religion was much easier for the Passamaquoddies than converting a way of being...
...still one can see the fork in the road and the divider. The road behind has shown the Indian losing many of his traditions and ways. "Kids don't want to make baskets anymore," David Francis complains. From the very outset of this cultural insemination, they lost their native religion. Though Catholicism embraces many traditional beliefs and values, it does so in a white man's forum, in a white...
...MEANTIME small, stable Mississippi communities will continue to offer their members something so good that few want to leave. These communities will continue to claim to know the secret of happiness and moral living and will continue to instill more than an adequate set of values, rooted firmly in religion. These communities will continue to look after old folks, widows and probably the poor, if they can only keep the big market and modernization...