Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state's outmoded 1894 charter and its tangle of 162 amendments. The proposed charter, drawn by a Democratic-dominated constitutional convention, lost by 3,361,000 votes to 1,308,000, largely because it incorporated repeal of a prohibition on state aid to church-run private schools. The Roman Catholic hierarchy vigorously backed the constitution, whose advocates spent more than $500,000 on hard-sell advertising that succeeded only in opening half-healed religious wounds. Governor Rockefeller, who split with other Republican leaders to give tepid endorsement to the charter, actually came out with a net gain. Presidentially speaking...
...Gospel must be proclaimed to all men, it is directed first of all to the poor in spirit." So saying, Paul-Emile Cardinal Léger, 63, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Montreal, last week announced that he will leave his see next month to become "a simple missionary" in a still unspecified leper colony in Africa. Although he retains the personal title of cardinal, Léger will work as a priest under the direction of an African bishop...
...recent years courses dealing with the emotionally disturbed have become standard fixtures in U.S. seminaries. This semester, for example, 82 Harvard divinity students are working as apprentice counselors in mental hospitals and other institutions as part of their training. Workshops in pastoral counseling for parish ministers have mushroomed. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit holds a weekly seminar for priests conducted by a psychiatrist; more than 500 clergymen now study annually at the famed Menninger psychiatric clinic in Topeka, Kans. In many U.S. cities, churches have established their own mental-health clinics, manned by both psychiatrists and clergymen trained...
...dedication with which McCarthy--a Roman Catholic--attacked the war may have been the most impressive aspect of his stay in Boston. The same people who spoke of him as a "cream-puff" before his arrival, are now talking about the depth of his conviction...
Achebe's novel is set in the early 1920s, but it would be helpful to think of it as a book that might very well have been written by an Anglo-Saxon chronicler about the 4th century A.D., just before the last Roman legion was to leave Britain; when Roman law was about to disappear and leave a crude, illiterate people to deal as best they could with Celtic chaos, superstition and the flickering light of Christianity. Modern Nigerians oppressed by a feeling of culture lag may optimistically reflect that the natives of Britain had in their future...