Word: roman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them out of fiscal ruin? And, of more immediate concern, should they have a drink while waiting? Perhaps not. After all, a leading contender was known to be Timothy S. Healy, a Jesuit priest. Sure enough, when the door opened, the big, bulky man who entered was wearing a Roman collar. Silence. He walked into the stiff assemblage and said in a gravelly baritone, "Anybody got a light...
...also apparently means that Albanian emigres will have the right to go home on visits, and thousands are already making plans to do so. In addition, the Assembly abolished a 24-year-old ban on religious practices, which presumably will mean the reopening of Islamic mosques as well as Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches that have been used in the Communist era as everything from museums to sports clubs...
...Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire." (History...
Some volunteers remained behind to move the historic Star of the Sea Roman Catholic church -- a structure noted for its interior wall paintings -- out of the path of destruction. By the time the lava flow sputters off into the ocean, Kalapana will be no more. Says Harry Kim, Hawaii County's civil-defense chief: "This community is finished. This land won't be productive for 150 years...
Until last year George Augustus Stallings Jr. was one of the most visible black priests in America's Roman Catholic Church. Today the flamboyant Washington preacher is the church's leading renegade. Stallings last July spurned church orders and formed his own African-American Catholic Congregation. This week he plans to push his defiance one step further by having himself consecrated a bishop. What's more, the 42-year-old priest has just become embroiled in scandal: a series in the Washington Post last week accused Stallings of questionable financial dealings and homosexual improprieties with three persons, one of them...