Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...balance, Bobby Kennedy liked the new constitution, so did the AFL-CIO state executive. New York's Roman Catholic archdiocese was delighted, since its parochial school system is in bad financial straits. But all three of New York City's major dailies came out against it. So did leaders of the League of Women Voters, the nonpartisan Citizens Union, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party. The religious-schooling controversy, old-fashioned as it is, was threatening to sink the constitution completely. Then last week in a surprising move, Governor Nelson Rockefeller...
...calls "foreign cultural evacuation." The regime is doing away with most French and English classes in Syrian schools. It has just taken control of Syria's 885 private schools, many of which are church-run, thereby evoking the combined wrath of the Moslem Mufti of Damascus and the Roman Catholic Patriarch of Syria. It has also "nationalized" the textbooks in these schools to make sure that they contain a proper dosage of socialist doctrine...
...Roman Catholics are confessing less but profiting from it more. In the past two years, U.S. parish priests admit, attendance at the confession box-once a Saturday ritual for legions of devout Catholics-has fallen noticeably. "I would say that confessions are at least a third less than they used to be," says Monsignor James A. Davin of St. Bernard Church in Mount Lebanon, Pa. At the same time, many renewal-minded Catholics are approaching the confessional in a more meaningful way-not as a mechanical means of cleansing their souls of sin but as a life-giving encounter with...
Assembled in battle array below the great rock fortress of Masada, the 5,000 men of the Roman Tenth Legion begin their charge, superbly equipped and ready for the task ahead. Above them, behind the ramparts of the fort, 967 Jewish Zealots brace for a last desperate defense. The setting is not the western shore of the Dead Sea, where the outnumbered Zealots committed mass suicide in A.D. 73 rather than surrender to the Romans, but Manhattan's Jewish Museum, where a panoramic display of exquisitely detailed models will open this week depicting the last days of Masada...
Israeli archaeologists are still studying the wealth of artifacts unearthed at Masada, but have already learned enough to establish that Josephus was indeed a worthy reporter. The dates on both Roman and Jewish coins help confirm when the Jewish revolt against Rome began (A.D. 66), and when the Zealots died. The three-tiered, mosaic-floored villa and ceremonial palace built by Herod and later occupied by the Zealots also conform closely to the descriptions of Josephus...