Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROSEMARY'S BABY. Writer-Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water, Repulsion) has left both dialogue and chills virtually intact in the movie adaptation of Ira Levin's bestseller about a devilish pregnancy. Mia Farrow's performance as the beleaguered wife adds an extra dimension of shuddery reality...
...Sweet Jesus, it looks as if Paul dropped a few more of his theological dinosaurs. There seems to be little hope that the Ice Age will recede within the next few eons. Therefore, I shall misinterpret his statement that the Roman Church is the "one only church" into that it is "only one church." He can infallibly lead all the Roman Catholics where he wants-I, for one, am an American Catholic...
...March 1945, a Japanese bomber smashed two bombs into the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Franklin. "O'Callahan was everywhere," wrote the navigator of Lieut. Commander Joseph O'Callahan, the ship's Roman Catholic chaplain. Besides ministering to the wounded, O'Callahan manned a fire hose, going into an oven-hot turret to cool off the ammo to throw it overboard. For this Father O'Callahan, who died in 1964, became the only chaplain in World War II to receive the Medal of Honor. Last week, another honor was bestowed as the destroyer escort U.S.S...
...ROMAN CATHOLICS
...minimonarchy in which the real power rests with the Premier, a post that Papadopoulos hopes to retain through popular elections. Under the new document, which will be presented to the people in a referendum on Sept. 29, the government at some unspecified time will recall King Constantine from his Roman exile. But the constitution strips him of his two most important prerogatives-the power to hire and fire Premiers and to command the armed forces. In the future, Greece's King will be obliged to name as Premier whoever is chief of the leading party in Parliament. The Premier...