Word: romane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again, the Italian government has sent entire companies of carabinieri to capture him. Each time the hills above Montelepre and the undernourished, goatskin-gaitered Montelepre peasants have refused to give him up. Hundreds have been arrested for aiding or sheltering him, but, to most Sicilians, as to most little Roman boys, Giuliano is still a hero...
Spokesman for the Protestants, Dean Walter Russell Bowie of Union Theological Seminary, began by reminding readers that "Protestantism and Roman Catholicism are both in their own conception interpreters of one and the same gospel- the gospel of God as revealed in Jesus Christ. Furthermore, Protestants can sincerely admire much that Roman Catholicism specifically represents . . . What then . . . are Protestants concerned about...
They are concerned, said Dr. Bowie, because they believe that the "clearly stated Roman Catholic purpose 'to make America Catholic,' if it succeeded, would jeopardize the religious and civil liberties which have been the glory of Protestant countries and of Protestant culture. The Protestant holds that every soul is accountable to God, that religion can only be real when each man espouses that which he himself believes, and that, in the long run, where there is spiritual independence, truth can be trusted to emerge. On the other hand, Roman Catholicism is not only a religion but a type...
Divine Prerogatives. To back up his charges, Dean Bowie cited such modern instances as the Vatican's Lateran Treaty with Mussolini (which named Roman Catholicism "sole religion of the State"); the recent reports by New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Homer Bigart of discrimination against Protestants in Spain (TIME, March 7); the 1885 encyclical of Pope Leo XIII stating that "it is not lawful for the State ... to hold in equal favor different kinds of religion"; and an article in the Jesuit publication La Civiltà Cattolica (TIME, June 28, 1948) which stated: "The Roman Catholic Church, convinced, through...
Sixteen hundred years ago no proper Roman's day was complete without a visit to the public baths, and a favorite was the great new one built by Emperor Caracalla below the Aventine Hill. Tunics and togas checked, the patrons could idle away hours beside the marble pools, move leisurely from the steamy heat of the calidarium to the cool waters of the frigidarium, let slaves massage them with perfumed oils while they pondered politics, poetry and philosophy...