Word: roman
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...since 1566 has the Roman Catholic hierarchy attempted such a project: the summarizing of the church's central teachings on faith and morals in a single document. Four years in the making, a secret 434-page draft of the new Catechism for the Universal Church was sent last December to the world's 4,000 bishops. The prelates were instructed to dispatch their comments on the text to the Vatican by May 31, after which work will begin on the final version. Since then there has been widespread grumbling over both the document's old- fashioned conservatism and the rush...
...report chides Rome for ignoring a generation of progressive Bible scholarship. The Roman draft, the Americans say, seems to presume that "New Testament texts are the product of direct historical reporting" and resorts to "proof-texting," quoting Scripture out of context to prove a doctrinal point. In addition, the Americans feel that science has been slighted in favor of an almost Fundamentalist approach to creation...
...with the flat roofs of ranch-style homes. Asian shopping malls are stocked with everything from disposable diapers to dried sea cucumbers that sell for up to $1,000 per lb. Signs in English and Spanish compete with those in the Korean Hankul alphabet and in Chinese ideograms. When Roman letters appear, they are often tricked out in the rococo accents of Vietnamese...
Earlier this year Lynch began to feel the pace of two decades of workdays that began at 6:45 a.m. and lasted long past dark. Adding to the load was his position as head of the Fidelity group of nine growth funds. A devout Roman Catholic, Lynch found that he was working not only six-hour Saturdays but also early Sunday mornings before attending Mass. "Alarm bells began to go off," he recalls. But when Lynch told Fidelity Chairman Edward Johnson III that he wanted to leave, Johnson urged his star fund manager to stay on in a less demanding...
...recent years,leaders in the CSA and the chaplains have consistently focused on outreach to students. To this end, we have maintained a fluid definition of membership whereby persons who checked off "Roman Catholic" on their United Ministries religious interest cards are de facto members (nearly 25 percent of Harvard Undergraduates...