Word: romane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cause of the solidarity of all Christians and the good of mankind his imperative duty was to establish contact between himself and the Pope. He was inspired by the eager hope that the action he was taking would open the way for official and effective cooperation between Roman and non-Roman Christians in all matters that did not involve dogmatic principles and historical conflicts which divide Christendom. The way being opened, he felt immediate steps might be taken for such cooperation in defining and proclaiming principles for the ordering of human life which Christ revealed as the Divine Will...
Repercussions started popping almost immediately. From Johannesburg came an excited statement from a group of Anglican churchmen denouncing such "secret negotiations." In London, the Catholic Herald deplored the "rumor" that Anglicans "may be seeking spiritual reunion" with the Roman Catholic Church. If the letters were in fact diplomatic feelers, said the Herald, they were "not regarded in that light by the Vatican...
...Strangest Thing . . ." In San Francisco last week some 250 men & women crowded into Fellowship Church's rented meeting hall. Half were white, more than a third were Negro, the rest Chinese, Japanese and Filipinos. Their religious backgrounds were also multicolored: Baptists, Quakers, Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, Jews, Episcopalians and many who claimed no church at all. The service last week was divided into two parts-half an hour of meditation, then 40 minutes of preaching and hymns...
Protestants and Catholics seem as far from reunion as ever. Joint worship is still expressly forbidden by the Church of Rome.* Yet there are times and places in mid-20th Century when the instinct for unity is stronger than the ban. In last fortnight's issue of the Roman Catholic Commonweal, Father Hans A. Reinhold cited recent instances. Outstanding was the report of a young priest among war prisoners in the Soviet Urals...
...fight pictures, away went the ambulance, the siren screaming. The pictures were developed on the way and sent to Acme's clients from a downtown office well ahead of the competition. At the next big fight, six ambulances were parked outside. Recalls Blumenfeld fondly: "We had a regular Roman chariot race down Park Avenue...