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...state of Kerala, in southwest India, is overpopulated even by Indian standards, and life is hard for its 20 million residents. For the state's 2,600,000 Latin-and Syrian-rite Catholics, the burden is even heavier. Strictly loyal to papal birth-control teachings, Catholic families, some with incomes of less than $350 a year, often have between eight and 15 children. Thus dowries for marriageable girls are out of the question. Under such conditions, an opportunity to send a daughter off to a European convent was like a godsend-and hundreds of families took advantage...
Competitive Rite. The canonization was the first major act of the Orthodox Church in America since it won official recognition as the legitimate branch of Russian Orthodoxy in the U.S. and Canada. Last spring the 850,000-member church, formerly known as the Metropolia, gained Moscow's grudging approval of its self-governing status and its canonical legitimacy-(TIME, March 16; April 13). Now the canonization gives it international dignity; Finnish and Bulgarian Orthodox churches, for example, promptly accepted St. Herman. Others are expected to follow...
...right after the Russians brought Communism to power in Rumania, the new government duly followed the Soviet example by clamping down on all religions, including the predominant Orthodox Church. Hardest hit were the 1,560,000 Uniate Catholics, who are in union with Rome, but practice the Byzantine rite. The Uniate Church was outlawed, its five bishops and most of its parish priests arrested. Many died in prison. In a second spasm of repression in 1958-60, hundreds of Orthodox priests, monks and lay members were flung into prison. Even Patriarch Justinian was briefly placed under house arrest...
Rumania's minorities, Hungarians and German-Saxons, are Roman-rite Catholics or Protestants. They, too, have benefited from this liberalization, though to a far lesser degree. Two theological institutes are training 171 would-be pastors of several denominations, who will serve 935,000 Hungarian and 187,000 Saxon Protestants. Rumania's 1,200,000 Catholics of the Roman rite, mainly Hungarians, peacefully attend Mass in their churches. There exists, however, an acute shortage of Bibles and prayer books for Protestants and Catholics...
...status of Catholics in Rumania varies sharply according to their nationality and the rite they practice. The illegal Uniates, Rumanian Catholics of the Byzantine rite, have long been mistrusted by the Orthodox clergy and by superpatriots because of the Uniate breakaway from Orthodoxy to Catholicism in 1698. Some Uniates have joined the Orthodox Church, but the majority still have to worship clandestinely. All Catholic religious orders are banned...