Word: roman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Inside, Roman Catholic Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Alberto Gori carries an olive-wood Christ child, accompanied by priests and deacons with swinging censers, acolytes and choir boys with long, flickering candles. The procession makes its way down into the Cave of the Nativity beneath the church, and there the figure of the Child is laid on a heap of straw in the place where tradition says the manger stood...
...Episcopal Church, meeting in Milwaukee, also heard some strong words on the subject from Bishop Stephen F. Bayne Jr., of the diocese of Olympia, Wash., who will take up his new duties next month as executive officer of the worldwide Anglican Communion in London (TIME, May 4). Said he: Roman Catholic doctrine on birth control, i.e., that continence, either total or during fertile periods, is the only moral means of preventing conception, was "devised by bachelors on a faulty moral theology which glorifies the single state; it is not particularly observed within the Roman Catholic Church or outside...
...Government, continued Douglass, cannot improve the health and economies of other countries "and at the same time disown all responsibility for the population problem which success on these fronts greatly accentuates." The Roman Catholic Church is "staging a desperate delaying action" in "a battle which it knows is already lost. It knows that millions of faithful Catholics disregard its prohibitions in the practice of contraception, and do this with a clear conscience...
Baptist Evangelist Billy Graham agreed. Birth control, he said, is one of the ways of coping with the "terrifying and tragic" problem of overpopulation; there is nothing in Scripture that prohibits its responsible use, and most Americans practice it, "whether they are Protestants or Roman Catholics...
Archbishop Iakovos, head of the Greek Orthodox Church of North and South America, lined up with the Roman Catholics. As he sees it, the argument in favor of birth control is based on the secular notion that society "must forever banish from the face of the earth hunger, misfortune, juvenile crime, social revolution and wars-since all these are a consequence of overpopulation." Said the archbishop: "This argument may be correct, but it is entirely negative." Childbirth, he added, is a "duty binding on all-not to avoid children, but to care for them in the nurture and admonition...