Word: roman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grimly ironic, considering the fact that the four men who were brought to trial in handcuffs last week were, like the policemen outside, employees of the Ministry of the Interior. The four, all secret policemen, are charged in the plot to abduct and murder Father Jerzy Popieluszko, 37, a Roman Catholic priest who was an outspoken supporter of the banned Solidarity trade union. His bound and beaten body was discovered last October in a reservoir 85 miles north of Warsaw...
...conciliatory move aimed at squelching suspicions of a possible official cover-up, the authorities have allowed two priests, representing the episcopate of the Roman Catholic Church, to "observe" the case. They will listen along with the state prosecutors to the testimony of more than 20 witnesses after a brief year-end recess...
When Merton entered the monastery 43 years ago, Roman Catholic religious orders were faithful to the rigorous disciplines of old. A little-known New York writer and teacher whose life had been rakish though not quite dissolute, he converted from irreligion to Catholicism at 23 and stunned friends three years later by joining the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, commonly known as Trappists. The monks of Gethsemani lived on prayer, hard manual toil, vegetables and little else. Under the rule of silence, all conversation was forbidden...
...killers, interrogators, mercenaries, the seedy and deadly emissaries of order. The paintings were huge, some of the figures nearly twice lifesize. Tacked unstretched to the wall like tapestries or (as Golub prefers to think of them) like skins, they resembled, in their stark silhouetting and red earth-colored backgrounds, Roman frescoes whose surfaces had been corrupted by the blackening breath of the late 20th century...
...home he hails his father with "Salve!"At New York City's private Trinity School, eighth-graders take turns reading aloud about a freed slave who owns a glassmaking shop. Teacher Cornelia Iredell spices the session by mixing in bits of grammatical instruction with the information that Roman merchants had to pay protection money to hoods in order to keep stores from being trashed...