Word: roman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trying underhandedly to convert Americans to be Roman Catholics? I just picked up three different copies of TIME, and in each one there are articles slanted definitely toward Roman Catholicism...
Msgr. Joseph A. McCaffrey's denunciation of "coddlers" and "do-gooders" as the chief contributing factors to New York's juvenile crimes [Sept. 14] seems to ignore completely the basic source of trouble. The Roman Catholic Church must accept its fair share of the responsibility. As long as the church insists on its adherents bringing children into the world regardless of their ability or prospects of providing them with decent homes, so long shall we require "more jails" to meet "force with force...
...American Affairs?" In a burst of generosity he handed his wristwatch to a Pittsburgh steelworker who offered him a stogie. He bowed his head respectfully for the luncheon invocation in Pittsburgh (where his aides had told him religion was important), and he paid his respects to Pittsburgh's Roman Catholic Bishop John J. Wright, who had counseled courteous treatment...
Anticlericalism was for more than a century the prime tenet of the Liberal parties that flourished in Latin America; Liberals effectively broke the Roman Catholic Church's vast temporal powers. Not destroyed was a great religious hunger. Last week in Honduras, a Liberal President, Ramón Villeda Morales, was treating the republic to the greatest wave of Catholic revivalism that the tiny, primitive country (pop. 1,800,000) ever...
...Brackettville, Texas. But could it be that piety is also needed for a boffo picture? Before the first scene was shot last week, cast and crew assembled at the re-created Alamo and listened to a special prayer recited by the Rev. Peter Rogers of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, San Antonio. "O Almighty God . . . today we ask thy blessing, thy help and thy protection, as once again history is relived in this production. We ask thee this so that the film, The Alamo, will not only be the world's outstanding production, but will also...