Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most religious groups other than the Catholic, a large number of the clerics come from families in which one or both parents were members of the clergy. Since Roman Catholic religious cannot marry, their church is deprived of this source of potential priests, nuns and brothers-and that is where the Catholic schools come in. It is perhaps an overstatement, but probably close to the truth, that the primary purpose of Catholic schools is to cultivate a clerical manpower pool. The church is faced with the painful choice of maintaining a school system that is becoming critically inferior to secular...
Unusual Undercurrents. Like many mass murderers, Charles Whitman had been an exemplary boy, the kind that neighborhood mothers hold up as a model to their own recalcitrant youngsters. He was a Roman Catholic altar boy and a newspaper delivery boy, a pitcher on his parochial school's baseball team and manager of its football team. At twelve years and three months, he became an Eagle Scout, one of the youngest on record. To all outward appearances, the family in which he grew up in Lake Worth, Fla.?including two younger brothers besides his mother and father, a moderately successful...
Another ancient barrier of suspicion between Roman Catholics and Protestants seems about to fall: the distrust of one another's sacraments. Catholics have historically refused to acknowledge the validity of such Protestant spiritual acts as ordination, confirmation and celebration of the Eucharist, although they do not question Protestant baptisms or marriages.* In the current issue of the in terdenominational Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Dutch Jesuit Frans Josef van Beeck, 36, finds a basis for arguing that Catholics can give full credit and validity to any or all of the Protestant spiritual acts...
Essential Requirements. Van Beeck, who is director of studies of the Dutch Jesuit Province, notes that traditionally the Roman Catholic Church has insisted on three essential requirements for sacraments: They must be celebrated in a true church, the doctrine underlying them must be sound, and those administering them must be priests in the apostolic succession - that is, ordained by bishops who are spiritual successors of Christ's first followers. Because they fulfill all three conditions, the sacraments of the Orthodox Church have always been recognized by Rome as valid...
...better known than Nasser, especially among desert folk. When she appeared for the first time at Lebanon's Baalbek Festival last month, her followers came by the busload from points as distant as the Persian Gulf. Her two concerts in the 4,000-seat tent theater amid the Roman ruins were sold out months in advance, and scalpers got up to $250 for tickets. While she conducted the 20-piece orchestra with flicks of a long linen hanky, her smoky voice quavered like a struck gong, snaked nasally through soaring loop-the-loops, dipped to guttural growls, sobs...