Word: romane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patriotism. What caused most of the world's tribes to become part of nation-states was a combination of forces that widened loyalties to ever larger political units. As farming and industry advanced, tribes became economically interdependent. Most were consolidated by the military force of empires, such as the Roman and Chinese; the growth of great religions, intertribal languages, technology and unifying national crises did the rest...
...word is derived from the the Latin tribus, meaning "one-third" of the Roman people, and originally referred to any of the three ethnic communities (Luceres, Ramnes, Tides) perched on the hills of Rome when the city was founded...
Shortly before dawn one Sunday this month, 214 left-wing Roman Catholics - including six priests and two nuns - "captured" the cathedral in Santiago, Chile. Barricading the doors against all outsiders for 15 hours, they celebrated an informal liturgy, then issued a manifesto denouncing Pope Paul's scheduled visit this week to the 39th International Eucharistic Congress in Bogota, Colombia. "Christ does not need masses of people singing in the streets, or acclaiming his vicarage, or thousands of wax candles," said the declaration. "The Christ of the poor needs courageous action aimed at changing the conditions of the Latin American...
...bizarre episode illustrated the explosive condition of the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America. As never before in its history, reports TIME Correspondent William Forbis, it faces an internal crisis that is both spiritual and political, partly because it contains outspoken extremes of rebellion and reaction. A vociferous, militant minority of radical priests, prelates and laymen argue that the church must embrace revolution, even Marxism, to survive. Traditionalist bishops warn that Christian support of social upheaval would bring on Communist dictatorships, and with it the death of the church...
...pronounced Irish accent. He has found the mythic frame for his novel in the love, rebellion and death of an Irish soldier in the garrison of a penal colony that might have been Sydney, but was historically Port Jackson, 200 years ago. Young Halloran is a corporal and Roman Catholic who has sworn his conscript's oath to the English and Protestant King, George III. He was once destined for the priesthood, and has a Latinate and God-bedazzled turn of mind. Now he guards felons, argues theology with one, and loves another, who happens to be a servant...