Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROSEMARY'S BABY. Placing his horrific tale against a realistic Manhattan background, Director Roman Polanski succeeds in making witchery seem all too possible. Mia Farrow is wrenchingly right as a young innocent who has a devil of a pregnancy...
Jeers. The schism widened a year ago when Sánchez, now 55, divorced his wife of 30 years and within three days married a beautiful younger woman, Lawyer Jeannette Ramos, who is 36. Aware of the problem that posed with his Roman Catholic constituency, the Governor announced at the same time that he would not seek reelection. By March, however, his confidence was so restored that he reversed his decision, against Muñoz's wishes...
...Roman Catholics the world over found themselves in a somewhat ambiguous moral position while the re-examination went on; it is no secret that many confessors have given permission to penitents to practice birth control on the old principle that lex dubia non obligat - a doubtful law is not binding. Now Pope Paul has decided to remove the doubt by restating Roman Catholicism's traditional view that any artificial interference with procreation is sinful...
...Province of the Society of Jesus, which extends from North Carolina to Ohio, the Very Rev. Edward J. Sponga, 50, was, in effect, the Jesuit equivalent of a bishop. Last week Father Sponga quietly abandoned his vow of celibacy to marry Mary Ellen Barrett, 33, a nurse at a Roman Catholic hospital in the Philadelphia suburb of Darby, Pa., and the divorced mother of three children. In so doing, he became the highest ranking ecclesiastic of the 350 or so priests who have left the Catholic Church in the U.S. within the last two years in order...
...seemed mild and almost irrelevant. The document on worship, for example, suggested that there should be changes in language, vestments and ceremonies in order to make prayer services more intelligible. Ecumenically, the council took a major step forward by issuing, for the first time, an open invitation to the Roman Catholic Church to join the World Council. Although theologians recognize the practical problems that would be involved if Catholics should become mem bers of the council, churchmen active in Christian-unity proposals have long considered the prospect inevitable. Hardly an eyebrow was raised when Roman Catholic observers at Uppsala took...