Word: restorationism
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THE uproar the decision has prompted should indicate the importance of this career office to the school population. More than 900 students, almost 60 percent of the student body, signed a petition last month asking for the restoration of the office. This reaction is all the more impressive when compared...
On Wednesday a Coast Guard patrol of St. Croix reported "a complete breakdown of authority," and six cutters headed for the island to evacuate panicked vacationers. But the restoration of order did not begin until Thursday with the arrival of 1,200 U.S. military police, federal marshals and FBI agents...
Although no faculty members have stepped forward to join the student position, students have also suggested creating a student-faculty committee to demonstrate a broad base of support for the office's restoration.
In Czechoslovakia six of the nation's 13 sees are now led by Rome-appointed bishops or apostolic administrators. Restoration of the hierarchy had been stalled for years because the regime wanted bishops tied to a Communist-front "peace" association. Rome refused -- and finally prevailed.
Can it really be that easy? Can memory be so short? Can history be rewritten by proclamation of the Beijing Communist Party propaganda department? Eerily, China's top leaders apparently believe that if they repeat the lie enough times, it will turn into truth. More chilling still, Chinese citizens outside...