Word: roman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire." (History...
Carter, who was accompanied by other members of his team, told Bush that a scientific poll conducted by the Roman Catholic Church with a maximum margin of error of eight or nine percent said Noriega had won in only two polling places...
...England's Canterbury Cathedral, the mother see of the worldwide Anglican Communion, Pope John Paul II in 1982 joined Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie in launching a bold venture. Following 16 years of ecumenical talks, the two church leaders inaugurated a second round of negotiations to examine whether Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism could come to recognize each other's priests and bishops. Such recognition would end 4 1/2 centuries of separation between two major wings of Christianity and pave the way for reunion...
...priests ordained by female bishops. As for the Pope's letter, Archbishop Runcie soothingly characterized it as "only a matter of straight speaking between friends that can help the dialogue go forward." In England, Margaret Orr Deas, of the Movement for the Ordination of Women, complained that "the Roman Catholics are not giving anything away" in the negotiations, and she expects no concessions because John Paul is "an unrelenting man and firmly entrenched in his views." The Pope's stern letter by no means ends ecumenical discussions or such friendly contacts as Runcie's Vatican visit planned for next September...
...with broad social services. "Left-right rhetoric today does not correspond to reality," he says. "France has buried its civil war." Three key changes explain why: the Fifth Republic finally established a strong, stabilizing presidency; the appeal of the Communist Party has withered; and the old antagonism between the Roman Catholic church and state has eased. "The left is in power precisely because it renounced its revolutionary culture," he says...