Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charles Davis is England's leading Roman Catholic theologian. A peritus (expert) at the Second Vatican Council, he has been editor of the Clergy Review, a provocative intellectual monthly aimed at priests, professor of theology at Jesuit-run Heythrop College, Oxfordshire, and has written several well-reviewed theological tomes. Understandably, England's Catholics were shocked last week when Father Davis announced that after 20 years as a priest he was leaving the church. Compounding the shock, Davis, 43, also said that he intended to marry an American Catholic, Florence Henderson, 36, of Farmingdale, N.Y., a theology student...
Ironically, the gesture deprived Gomulka of some of the most anticlerical Communist writers, who might have sided with him in the regime's latest confrontation with the Roman Catholic Church. For eight long months this year, the regime fumed as the church's millennium was celebrated by millions of Poles. No sooner were the ceremonies over last month than Gomulka felt he could safely hazard his revenge. It took the form of a demand for the removal of six rectors of seminaries that had refused to submit to government inspection and control of their curriculums...
...Leslie Dewart, a Roman Catholic philosopher who was born in Spain and now teaches at St. Michael's College of the University of Toronto, the trouble is not so much with God as with the language used to describe him. What Christianity needs, Dewart says in The Future of Belief (Herder & Herder; $4.95), is to "de-Hellenize" its thinking, abandoning concepts of God derived from Greek and Medieval philosophy that are out of accord with the contemporary experience...
...roast beef could take a man to the edge of starvation. The system had at least one advantage: it had practically always been that way. The pound and penny first appeared about the time of King Offa in the 8th century. They were originally named for the Roman libra and denarius (hence the still used signs of ? and d), but the libra eventually evolved into the pound, because it was worth that weight in silver. Similarly, it took 240 pennies to make a pound because that was the number of pennies that weighed a pound.* Shillings joined Offa...
Modern generals win paper monuments. Roman triumphs and imperial purple are out; the dead great don't even get purple prose. Olive-drab words backed by properly inspected facts do the honors. Today's armies, those huge agglomerations of men and machines required for warfare by great industrial states, still need platoon leaders and even heroes; but above all they need a military bureaucrat, a lord of the files...