Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wide range of freedom in seeking the truth." To Bishop Henry I. Louttit of south Florida, the man pressing for the trial, the issue is whether the church can tolerate within its ranks a bishop who has denied such fundamental dogmas as the Virgin Birth. "We want him to resign the episcopate," Louttit says. "The common word is unfrocked. I want him to admit that he does not accept the faith...
...Time to Fight." Weltner's opponents charged that he had good reason to resign. Until two weeks ago, he had been easily favored over his Republican challenger, Fletcher Thompson, 41, a handsome but undistinguished state senator. However, Maddox's victory raised the possibility that Atlanta's Negroes and white moderates-the bulk of Weltner's support-would go fishing on election day. Close friends of Weltner's insisted nonetheless that had it not been for the moral issue, he would have stayed in the race, whatever the odds...
...steam." Constitutionally, he cannot be ousted unless a majority of the Bundestag can agree in advance on a successor, and that is out of the question as long as Erhard wants to stay. He realizes that the potshots are intended to wear down his will and lead him to resign. The Chancellor seems to have no such in tent, confided to a visitor last week: "I will survive all this...
...columns - with a succession of starlets. Just as it seemed that their ardor had cooled, Lynda abruptly broke off her Hawaiian vacation, and has been making the scene with George ever since. By last week, in fact, there were signs that Lynda's father may have to resign himself to the inevitability of George - even though in private the President, feigning ignorance of .the fellow's real name, often refers to him as "Charley." Visiting the L.B.J. ranch, Hamilton, 27, seemed to settle comfortably into a new role as member-of-the-family. Although he is a Christian...
Worried by this vulnerability, the Vat ican Council urged diocesan bishops as well as parish priests who are "less capa ble of fulfilling their duties properly be cause of the increasing burden of age or some other serious reason" to resign voluntarily from office. Last month Pope Paul VI, who is 69, "earnestly request ed" that bishops and priests leave office on their own initiative...