Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their standards. Any man under 4 ft. 10 in. is rejected, as are those with kinfolk fighting for the government, those with such ailments as stomach trouble, tuberculosis, asthma or an amputated trigger finger. To avoid infiltration by government spies, one captured document enjoined against recruiting former ARVN volunteers, Roman Catholics, and "those young men whose father or mother were killed by the Revolution, landlords' sons, and those whose parents, brothers and sisters were tyrants, opponents and distributors of the Revolution...
Pope Paul has confounded critics by his basic dichotomy of views: conservative in doctrine and theology, progressive in matters of administration and social involvement. For example, soon after he excoriated laissez-faire capitalism in his encyclical Populorum Progressio, he left Roman Catholic liberals bitterly disappointed by his decision to uphold priestly celibacy. Many of the same liberals were delighted last week as Paul ordered one of the most sweeping changes in Roman Catholic church administration made by any Pope in the past four centuries...
What the Pope did was to order a shake-up of the Curia, the Roman Catholic Church's all-powerful governing bureaucracy. New regulations will bring to an end the dominance of a small clique of elderly, ultra-conservative Italian cardinals who have clung to the levers of power for a lifetime and used their position to stifle reform. Now the doors are open to a constant flow of clerics with varied backgrounds and, most important, new ideas...
...part of the pluralistic weave of American life, ready to shuck its minority-minded defensiveness and its sense of dependency on authority overseas. With deep insight and patient scholarship, Father Murray incorporated the U.S. secular doctrines of church-state separation and freedom of conscience into the spiritual tradition of Roman Catholicism...
...life were tottering toward an end. He still drew by candlelight in a darkened room, working furiously because he knew that he was doomed by his lungs. He moved from London to the softer climate of Dieppe and finally to the French Riviera. His sister had become a Roman Catholic, and Beardsley, in terror of death, soon followed. In a last letter, written in "my death agony," he begged his publisher to destroy all his "obscene drawings," particularly his series on Lysistrata, but the letter was never mailed. In 1898 he died, aged...