Word: roman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...miles from the Mexican border, the Rev. John Fife nailed up a neatly painted sign that reads: THIS IS A SANCTUARY FOR THE OPPRESSED FROM CENTRAL AMERICA. Fife is now facing the consequences of that proclamation. This week he and an ecumenical group of ten others, including two Roman Catholic priests and a nun, will go on trial in Tucson on charges of conspiring to transport and shelter Central American aliens. If they are found guilty, the sentences on the conspiracy charges could be as severe as five years in prison and $10,000 fines...
...controversial movement got its start at Fife's Southside Church on the second anniversary of the assassination of Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero of El Salvador. The archbishop, because of his bold advocacy of the poor in his country, was gunned down in 1980 while saying Mass in San Salvador. Since then, Sanctuary has drawn support from various religious bodies, including American Baptists, Presbyterians, United Methodists and the United Church of Christ. The movement has also been endorsed by Conservative Judaism's Rabbinical Assembly. Pastors and congregation members who have sheltered refugees within their churches maintain that when these...
Almost a year has passed since a committee of five Roman Catholic bishops released the first draft of a pastoral letter that denounced the "massive and ugly" failures of the American economy and called for a bold new effort to aid the poor both in the U.S. and abroad. Impassioned and provocative, the document aroused a torrent of reaction that ran to 10,000 pages of comments from Catholics and non-Catholics alike. While many liberals praised the letter as a blueprint for economic justice, conservatives complained that it was an unjustified assault on the foundations of capitalism...
...worth his card be put on the VIP list, while some members of other political groups almost had % to beg at the door. Christiane Schwartzbard, a Communist member of the Paris city council, bitterly complained about having been overlooked, tartly observing that Picasso himself was a Communist. Retorted Roger Roman, another of the uninvited council members, "Picasso does not belong to a faction, but to France--to the universe...
...would be swamped with harrowing divorce proceedings." The status quo was backed by a majority of voters in twelve of the country's 26 cantons, including rural Appenzell, where women are still denied the right to vote on local issues. Among disappointed supporters of the old order was a Roman Catholic priest from Lucerne, who complained, "It all proves that old family virtues no longer count...