Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...true that Bach's chorales are still widely used at Protestant services-and in the ecumenical climate of modern Roman Catholicism, no organist would hesitate to use his setting of Luther's A Mighty Fortress as a prelude to Sunday Mass. Still, the mode of Christian worship is not that of Bach's time, and the impact of his compositions, whether secular or sacred, stems largely from a general feeling of transcendence in the music. "He will give Christianity to Christians, Judaism to Jews, even Communism to Communists," says Karl Richter, conductor of the Munich Bach Choir...
...city where Girolamo Savonarola preached in defiance of a Renaissance Pope, Alexander VI, has another rebel priest on its hands. In fact, the name of Don Enzo Mazzi, 41, has already become known all over Italy as a symbol of the clerical protest that has broken out even in Roman Catholicism's own backyard...
...unceremoniously fired him, on the ground that his presence in Isolotto was a threat to " ecclesiastical unity." Shortly thereafter more than 1,500 of Mazzi's parishioners trekked through pouring rain for a protest demonstration outside the cathedral, where the cardinal was saying Mass-in Latin. Later, 40 Roman residents, to demonstrate support for Mazzi, held a sit-in in St. Peter's Square below Pope Paul's apartment...
...chipmunks," Thomas Merton once wrote a friend after surviving major surgery, "and I'd like it that way." He did not get his wish. On the very day that Karl Barth lay dying in Basel, the 53-year-old Trappist poet-priest was attending an ecumenical conference of Roman Catholic and non-Christian monks in suburban Bangkok. Returning to his bungalow to rest during the hot afternoon, he reached out to adjust an electric fan and apparently touched an exposed wire. He was instantly electrocuted...
...been the most publicly visible Christian contemplative since St. Simeon Stylites took refuge on top of a pillar. Merton's pillar was print, and he had not exactly chosen it for himself. What he had chosen, at the age of 26 and as a new convert to Roman Catholicism, was the silent and anonymous life of the Trappist monks, who rise early, work hard, eat little and pray much. When he entered the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky, however, his abbot decreed that Merton should continue writing-as he had since the age of ten. Merton...