Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARC ORAISON is a Frenchman and WILLIAM DUBAY is an American, but both are Roman Catholic priests who in separate ways have challenged the Vatican's right to withhold approval from books touching on faith and morals. See RELIGION...
...years ago, such a proviso might have raised cries of a Western plot against the growth of colored races. Hunger's pressures have helped to calm that fallacious fear. Even in the most unlikely region, Roman Catholic South America, resistance to birth control has dwindled. "Religion is getting out of the way;" says University of Chicago Economist Theodore W. Schultz...
Last spring, aerial photos were taken of the premises, which include half-buried pre-Roman ramparts dating back to the Iron Age. Then, in a three-week dig that has just ended, three big exploratory holes were carved in the dry loam to a depth of about 7 ft. Out of them came "Arthurian matter" called "minor jackpots" by the diggers, one of whom headily claimed to have found a carved letter "A." Presumably that meant something different in A.D. 500 than it did in Nathaniel Hawthorne's time...
Major Efforts. Along with more pottery, the jackpots include a 1-in.-long bronze pin for fastening garments, and a blackened iron knife blade some 5 in. long. University of Wales archaeologists conducting the dig found new ramparts within the older pre-Roman walls. Farther up the hillside they also found postholes 1 ft. in diameter-unusually large for the time-that may indicate the site of Arthur's mead hall, plus grain-storage pits and burnt remains from another timber structure...
Died. Bishop Santos Martin Molina, 65, primate of the Spanish Reformed Church, a tiny Episcopal congregation (3,500 members) in an overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country, who fought all his life for religious freedom in Spain-with enough success to say recently that "many of the great difficulties are disappearing"; of stomach cancer; in Madrid...