Word: roman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...letter written yesterday to the New York Times, John T. Edsall '23, professor of Biological Chemistry, rejected the suggestion made by some Roman Catholic bishops that emigration from overcrowded nations constitutes a feasible alternative to birth control...
...Republic." Said ex-Premier Pierre Mendès-France: "For 34 years I have admired, followed and loved him." Herriot's free-thinking friends were at first startled, and then indignant, to hear that on his deathbed, Lifelong Agnostic Edouard Herriot had gone back into the Roman Catholic Church, and been buried with church ritual...
Busy, ancient (78) Pope John XXIII acted again last week to strengthen the Curia-administrative headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church-which has suffered in recent years from understaffing and old age. For Dec. 14 the Pope called a consistory (his second) at which eight new cardinals will be created, raising the membership of the Sacred College to 79, the largest in history...
...will be the first Scottish cardinal since the death of Charles Cardinal Erskine in 1811. "He may also," speculated the London Times, "be the first Oxford rowing Blue in the history of the Church to achieve the purple." Since 1927 Heard has served at the Vatican on the Sacred Roman Rota, the high ecclesiastical court that passes on applications for marriage annulments. The Vatican expects Pope John to make use of Monsignor Heard's legal abilities in preparing for the forthcoming Ecumenical Council...
...super-spectacles. The story of Ben-Hur is reasonably faithful to the general's stirring "Tale of the Christ." Prince Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston), a rich Jew born about the same time as Christ, falls out with his childhood friend Messala (Stephen Boyd), commander of the Roman garrison in Jerusalem, who demands that Ben-Hur inform against other Jewish patriots. When Ben-Hur refuses, Messala condemns him to certain death as a galley slave and shuts up his mother (Martha Scott) and sister (Cathy O'Donnell) in a pestilential dungeon. Ben-Hur is freed from the galley...