Word: roman
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...TOOK AMERICA'S ROMAN CATHOLIC bishops three years to develop a scheme for ending the nuclear arms race. They needed six years to produce a master plan for reforming capitalism. But it has become an unending struggle for the men of the hierarchy to come up with a coherent policy on women to guide their flock of 58 million. The bishops are already into their ninth year of trying to agree on a pastoral letter, and the longer it takes, the more rancorous the debates become. Feminist lobbyists, antifeminist lobbyists, even a few bishops, proclaim the project a disaster...
...though condemned to inferiority, the living artist could learn from his dead superiors, and what Canova extracted from Greek sculpture -- which he knew largely from Roman copies -- was its sense of grace and felicity, its subtle play of volumes and surfaces and its search for idealization within nature. He was not a "Roman" classicist, creating emblems of political virtue like Jacques-Louis David. From all we know of Canova, he never seems to have had a thought about politics -- which must have been an advantage for a man who worked for so many courts, papal and royal. Despite the mythological...
...question is how. As the first Protestant leader of a predominantly Roman Catholic country, Ramos needs to forge a new relationship with the church, which remains an important unifying force in a society riven by social, ethnic and political divisions. The job demands a felicitous combination of skill and character, and it is difficult to say whether Ramos has it. Though he has spent 46 of his 64 years in the public eye, he remains an enigma to all but a tight circle of relatives and friends, most of them fellow military men. A West Point graduate with a degree...
Cordiality aside, women's ordination turned out to be a big sticking point. The official communique stated that Archbishop Carey deemed the practice "a possible and proper development," while John Paul said it "constitutes a grave obstacle to the whole process of Anglican-Roman Catholic reconciliation." The Pope's latest warning on women, however, will do nothing to dissuade yes votes in England or elsewhere. For one thing, lingering hopes for Anglican-Catholic reunion were dashed last December by a significant Vatican pronouncement that ruled out any compromise on the powers of the papacy...
...Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire." (History...