Word: restorationism
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Harberger also implicitly justified the repression. He felt the socialistic economic policies of the Allende government had helped destroy freedom in Chile; he still subscribers to the 19th-century belief that a free market in the economic and political realms are interdependent. "The restoration of political freedom is impossible without...
After the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in 1853, the Dutch church was fervently traditionalist. As of 1939, the tiny country produced fully 11 % of Catholicism's missionary priests. But during World War II rigid lines between Catholics and Protestants began to break down, when the two rival faiths...
In Boone a midmorning slump had hit him and some of his power waned. He gave rambling answers to questions about the Soviets and about abortion. But his adrenaline was pumping again among Iowa State University students in Ames. His speech was good, though undistinguished; a firm call for a...
In the U.S., where he became the first Pope to be received at the White House, he was an inspiring preacher of good will and compassion, but also a firm advocate of strict church discipline. Though his doctrinal positions against birth control, divorce, and married and women priests are opposed...
The all too familiar, yet unlikely, candidate was Indira Gandhi, personally carrying her pitch to an estimated 90 million voters in a 25,000-mile nationwide campaign. She was defiantly attempting nothing less than the possible restoration of the dynastic House of Nehru to Indian politics, a move that not...