Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were soon overthrown by their Egyptian slave guards, the Mamelukes. The Mamelukes were in turn driven out by the Ottoman Turks, who captured the Holy City in 1517 and ruled it for 400 years. Though Christians were allowed to return to the city, a dispute between Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic clergy over control of the Christian shrines caused the Crimean War (1853-56), pitting Russia, which supported the Greeks, against Britain, France and Turkey...
Hardly contributing to the spirit of sanctity is the constant churchly bickering over many of the shrines. Six denominations-Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Armenian, Syrian, Coptic and Abyssinian-have rights to the Holy Sepulcher; for years the basilica has been near collapse because the churches cannot agree on how to make the necessary repairs. The interior of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, co-owned by Orthodox, Catholics and Armenians, is a tasteless clutter of rival altars, lamps, candelabra, icons and statues. In addition, many of the shrines are ringed by bazaars and barkers, hawking everything from plastic crosses...
...chosen race; Christianity bases its claims on the proclamations of a specific human figure. For that reason, churchmen argue that the shrines have value as reminders that holy events occurred in time and space. Because of their association with "the manifestation of God's divine being," says Roman Catholic Theologian Joerg Splett of Germany, ancient shrines can properly be revered as symbols of "where God's holiness touches man's soul." Adds Anglican Theologian Henry Chadwick of Oxford: "A place is not in itself holy, but by its association through history...
...Salt Lake Valley. According to the Book of Mormon, the word deseret means honeybee. For a while the News had Salt Lake City pretty much to itself. But in 1870, the Tribune was started to "oppose the undue exercise of priestly authority." Under the ownership of a wealthy Roman Catholic family named Kearns, the Tribune eventually surpassed the News because of its more comprehensive coverage; it also made light of Mormon officialdom. The church pumped considerable cash into the paper so that it could compete. In 1952 both papers grew weary of battle and combined their advertising and business departments...
...stubborn inability to see the difference between Catholicism and any other religion, and his invincible interest in the theory of sex. She dealt with both problems in masterly fashion. When he died in 1890 at 79, she arranged for him to receive the last sacrament of the Roman Church. He had been dead for two hours, but the priest took her word that he was alive. Then, "sorrowfully, reverently, and in fear and trembling," she set about burning his manuscript of The Scented Garden, an encyclopaedic sex manual whose translation from the Arabic had occupied Burton's last years...