Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past 18 months, an estimated 400 priests have left the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. For most of them, the transition to secular life is a traumatic experience. Unless a cleric enjoys private means, he is usually broke; unless he has close relatives, he has no place to stay...
Poland's Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water) is hopping mad about The Fearless Vampire Killers, or Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck. Alleging that his U.S. producers cut 19 minutes of footage and otherwise tampered with his handiwork, he sputters: "What I made was a funny, spook fairy tale, and this is a sort of Transylvanian Beverly Hillbillies...
...ways in which man's subconscious drives and fears limit his freedom of choice. "We cannot take away the fact that man is capable of sin and has free choice between good and evil," says the Rev. John Lind, assistant pastor of New York City's Roman Catholic Church of the Resurrection-Ascension. "The great theological problem is to determine what our free choices are. With the help of psychology, we are beginning to understand that there are forces at work in a human being that can lessen his culpability...
...record business. Just seven years ago, there was only one car for every 25 Italians; by the end of this year, there will be one for every seven. The exasperating urban traffic jam has become a national horror. Historic piazzas have been turned into huge parking lots. Ancient Roman roads are being lined with more and more service stations. From Milan in the north to Messina in the south, the car is king...
Died. Maximos IV Cardinal Sayegh, 89, Patriarch of Antioch and leader of Roman Catholicism's Eastern Melchite Rite; of cancer; in Beirut. One of the fathers of Vatican II, the outspoken patriarch stirred the Council by urging a college of bishops to advise the Pope, an idea that was implemented last September when the Synod of Bishops convened in Rome...