Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offices have received many protests about "Roman Catholics from Rote to Reality" [Feb. 17] because it neglects the source of "Come to the Father." The first three years of the series originated in Quebec with a team of French Canadian authors. It was adapted into an English version by a team of English Canadian catechists who have now joined their French brothers in the writing of grades 4, 5 and 6. This is the version used in the U.S. In Canada it is referred to as the Canadian Catechism...
...barred from participating in the mainstream of Spanish life. They were, in fact, not even officially recognized as having been born, married or buried-since Spain acknowledged those milestones only when they were sanctioned by the Catholic clergy. Under the new bill, the old strictures would fall away. Though Roman Catholicism would remain the state religion, Spain's 30,000 Protestants, 6,000 Jews, and 1,000 Moslems would enjoy the full rights of Spanish citizenship, be allowed to hold public worship services, build churches and temples and identify them publicly for the first time since Franco came...
After publicly burning his draft card as a "symbolic protest" in Manhattan in 1965, Roman Catholic Pacifist David J. Miller, 24, became the first person to be convicted under a new law that makes card burning punishable by a $10,000 fine or five years' imprisonment, or both. When Miller appealed his suspended three-year sentence, he argued that Congress had enacted the law deliberately to suppress dissent. Indeed, the bill's proponents made no secret of the fact that it was aimed at "beatniks"-meaning critics of the U.S. war effort in Viet...
During his three-week ordeal, Roman Catholic Father John Hogan of Gary, Ind., lost six pounds, and "the tension was so high that I suddenly felt like crying when I was driving home." Mrs. Robert Stack, wife of the television actor, says: "You are almost hypnotized -and your mind goes blank. It's like being in a torture chamber." The horrifying experience Father Hogan and Mrs. Stack endured was distinctly beneficial: the Berlitz Schools' "Total Immersion" course, which aims to give its students a foreign-language fluency and vocabulary of 1,600 words a week...
...eyed blonde who triggered the explosion by appearing topless in 1950's Caroline Chérie, went on to make nearly 40 films, a few good (Lola Moniés), a lot more bad, but every one displaying Martine, usually in a bath, be it bubble, champagne or Roman, by daylight, moonlight or candlelight, all of which made her one of France's highest paid stars until Brigitte and the other girls took over the tub in the late 1950s; of a heart attack; in Monte Carlo...