Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part, if only by resolving to have the ceremony performed in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception-largest Roman Catholic Church in the U.S.-the President's younger daughter opted automatically for pomp above privacy. No one has ever been married before in the great hilltop edifice in northeast Washington, with its mosaic domes, 30 satellite chapels and ornate, still-incomplete interior that has had to be cleared of scaffolding for the occasion. Actually, it is normal Catholic practice for a girl to be married in her own parish church; Luci's happens to be St. Matthew...
...queen, Christina of Sweden was something of a flop. Her reign lasted only ten years; then she converted to Roman Catholicism, abdicated, moved to Rome, and became a national embarrassment. As a historical personage, she inspired more fiction than fact with her bizarre ways. Greta Garbo played her on the screen in 1934 as a vamp who went disguised as a man, washed her face with snow, and proclaimed that she expected to die "not an old maid but a bachelor...
Vault in the Vatican. Her love of art helped sever her from the stern Lutheranism that her father preached by the sword. Contrary to the religious statutes of her country, Christina converted secretly to Roman Catholicism in 1654. She left Sweden ostensibly to visit a spa to the south, then set out across Germany disguised as a knight, and a year and a half later entered Rome regally. Legend has it that she wore embroidered gilt breeches to her first Communion...
...calls "the Holy Spirit at work in the world," has led to a spate of discussion. In 1964 the meeting of the World Alliance of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches in Frankfurt, Germany, chose as its theme "Come Creator Spirit." Last June the first national ecumenical meeting of Methodists and Roman Catholics in Chicago had the same focus. Smith believes that the "issue will really blow open" at the next meeting of the World Council of Churches, to be held in 1968, which has picked as its subject God's promise of resurrection to all men through the Holy Spirit...
Steps Steeper, Print Smaller. No one has had time to study middle age very much, since it is practically a modern invention, as well as a distinctly American one. Prehistoric man lived about 18 years. The life span of an ancient Greek or Roman averaged out to 33. When friends attempted to dissuade Cato the Younger from committing suicide at 48, he argued that he had already outlived most of his contemporaries. Even as recently as 1900, U.S. life expectancy was less than 50. Thanks to medical advances and high-protein diets, life has lengthened, and it has grown...