Word: romane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...note to Breslin, plus another letter left at a murder scene filled with such violent and repulsive language that it has not been released to the public. Amid the vilifications contained in the second letter are hints that the writer is reasonably well educated and may have attended a Roman Catholic school...
...successor. The real center is the Holy Church. If they ask us what is our future, then we say, 'Our future is our past.' " With that, he ordained-against Vatican orders -14 priests and 16 subdeacons, an act that could start the century's largest Roman Catholic schism...
...same patient and adoring woman all his life and who raised a family that cherished him. When a friend judged his biography of a notorious Denver madam too indelicate, Fowler retrieved the manuscript from an astonished publisher and burned it. When he died in 1960, a convert to Roman Catholicism, Fowler was the friend of countless priests and prelates...
With strong family and community pressure at work, why are these young Jews following Jesus? Theodore Freedman of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith says they are "largely children with emotional problems." Donald LeMagdeleine, a Roman Catholic who is conducting the first careful survey of the young converts for a thesis at Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union, disagrees. They want a religious experience that they did not find in their synagogues or in Jewish cultural upbringing, he says. "They are not looking for Jewish rap groups. They are looking...
Died. Sir John Masterman, 86, former vice chancellor of Oxford University who directed British-and later Allied-counterintelligence units during World War II; in Oxford. In his book The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939 to 1945, Masterman recounted how the Twenty Committee (from the Roman numeral XX, symbolizing double-cross) effectively "ran and controlled the German espionage system" by feeding agents carefully planned false information, e.g., that the 1944 Allied invasion would take place in Calais, not Normandy. After the war, Masterman returned to Oxford and until his retirement in 1961 served as provost of Worcester College...