Word: roman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hoods are always conscious of the rules. Simon, 15, a Roman Catholic and a car thief, passionately insists he hates the Provos, hates the cops, but he still knows what side of the civil war he is on. He was in the neighborhood of New Lodge the night of the biggest riot in Belfast last August, throwing rocks alongside the pro-I.R.A. teenagers he normally shuns. He makes a distinction between the thrill of joyriding and that of rioting. "Joyriding is for fun," he says earnestly. "Rioting is because you hate...
Cerullo is entering a dicey and competitive business. Although cable is ( ideal for specialized TV programming, experts figure that only two or three of the numerous religious networks can survive the next few years. Eternal Word (independent Roman Catholic, 14 million households) and ACTS (Southern Baptist-owned, 9.5 million) are pinning their salvation on locally based denominational loyalty. An interfaith and ecumenical entry known as VISN (7.4 million) just got Tele-Communications, Inc. and other cable owners to pledge as much as $12 million and give it two years to succeed. But VISN's programming is nonconfrontational, and hot gospel...
...produces a smog worthy of Los Angeles. Some may even view as excessive chauvinism the natives' insistence on speaking Catalan rather than Spanish. But those who take the time will discover in this most Mediterranean of cities a rare personality, fanatically avant-garde yet obsessively preservationist. First century Roman baths are being excavated amid the twisting streets of its dense Gothic quarter. The famous Picasso Museum is housed in a 15th century palace; the main Olympic stadium is a renovated 1929 arena. This month Antoni Tapies, Catalonia's best-known living painter, will open, in a refurbished art deco mansion...
...Some of your brethren in the Southern Baptist Convention have expressed outrage at your meeting with prominent Roman Catholics...
...There used to be big problems. But now I have reconciled in my mind that God has his people in all kinds of places and all kinds of churches and groups. I have found many people in the Roman Catholic Church, both clergy and laity, who I believe are born-again Christians. They may hold different theological views than I hold, but I believe they are in the body of Christ. So I consider them brothers and sisters in Christ. And, as my wife has often said, we have never received an ugly letter from a Roman Catholic...