Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After some politicking, the Johnsons then accompanied Daughter Luci and Fiancé Pat Nugent at a Good Friday service in San Antonio's Roman Catholic San Fernando Cathedral, later flew to the L.B.J. Ranch for a long Easter weekend. There they were joined by Daughter Lynda, looking as radiant as her father and sporting a jeweled gold ring on the third finger of her left hand. A gift from her current beau, Actor George Hamilton, who had also joined the family for the weekend, the ring, White House aides averred, stood for "friendship," not connubial intent...
...attracted to London by its swinging film industry, whose latest export to the U.S. is Morgan!, a hilarious piece of insanity. Charlie Chaplin is making The Countess from Hong Kong with Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren. Francois Truffaut is just finishing Fahrenheit 451 with Julie Christie and Oskar Werner. Roman Polanski is making a horror satire called The Vampire Killers. Robert Aldrich is starting up a war film called The Dirty Dozen, and Sidney Lumet is working with Maximilian Schell, James Mason and Simone Signoret in The Deadly Affair. For the past several weeks, Michelangelo Antonioni has been prowling...
...rosaries and carrying a sequined banner that pictured the Virgin of Guadalupe, along with crudely lettered union slogans, 100 Mexican-American grape pickers last week finished a monthlong, 300-mile march of penance and protest through California's Central Valley from Delano to Sacramento. Marching with them were Roman Catholic priests and nuns and Protestant ministers, and the mood of the demonstrators was triumphant. For shortly before the protesters reached the state capital, they had won recognition of their embryonic union, the National Farm Workers Association, from Schenley Industries Inc., which owns about 2,400 acres of vineyards...
...workers' demand for recognition of their right to organize was explicitly endorsed in a statement signed by California's eight Roman Catholic bishops, including James Francis Cardinal McIntyre of Los Angeles and Archbishop Joseph McGucken of San Francisco. Citing papal encyclicals and documents of the Second Vatican Council, the bishops warned that "unless farm workers are given a chance to organize, they are going to become the wards of the state." Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike of San Francisco urged his congregants to join the march in sympathy. The National Council of Churches formally endorsed the strike...
...Pack of Jews." Today the Mafia seems to have agreed to live and let Dolci live, although he has given wide publicity to telling statistics-such as that in one village Mafia murders since 1945 outnumber the village's dead of both world wars. As for the Roman Catholic Church, Dolci is now a "lapsed Catholic," and he blames the breach on the "lack of a tradition of charity, even on the level of almsgiving" of the church in Sicily. His fall from the faith he also attributes to the sermons of two Sicilian priests: one denounced a destitute...