Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more freakishly talented eccentrics of English letters. A homosexual, a paranoiac, a scoundrel, a petty blackmailer and a fake, he was constantly in debt, sponged on his friends, excoriated his enemies and died in 1913 in self-imposed exile in Venice. At 26 he converted to Roman Catholicism and trained for the priesthood. Twice dismissed from seminaries, he retained a lifelong conviction of his priestly vocation...
...wine merchant of prose-witty, luxuriant, Latinate-Rolfe poured out a minor masterpiece of wish fulfillment in his novel Hadrian VII, an account of how a once-rejected candidate for the priesthood was astonishingly elected Pope out of a clear blue Roman sky. Now Hadrian has been skillfully dramatized by Peter Luke, who also relies on A.J.A. Symons' biography of Rolfe, The Quest for Corvo. The result is an effulgent theatrical success in a wan London dramatic season...
...Power is the name of the game," said one Roman Catholic priest in Chicago last week. That was the mood of the 233 clerical delegates to the constitutional convention of the National Federation of Priests' Councils-the first such organization in the world. Inspired by the successful growth of diocesan-wide priests' associations and senate (TIME, Feb. 23), the federation has been in the works for a year and, like its local counterparts, it is designed to give priests a larger share in shaping the attitudes of a changing church...
...object to the abuses of infant baptism, but oth ers go much farther, saying that baptism is only meaningful when the in dividual involved understands the significance of the ritual-a viewpoint that has lately been adopted by a number of other Protestant and even Catholic thinkers. In the Roman Catholic Church -which requires parents to have their children baptized as soon as possible-several progressive theologians have seriously suggested that the ceremony be postponed until puberty, when a youth presumably is mature enough to accept or reject his faith. Perhaps the most formidable challenge to infant baptism was made...
...modern challenge to infant baptism stems from several different arguments. A growing number of Roman Catholic thinkers now look on original sin as the universal weakness of man rather than a damning individual fault-which cuts the ground out completely from the need for infant baptism. Still others object to the "magical" implications of the baptism ceremony-namely, that a spiritual cleansing is achieved by the physical act of pouring a few drops of water on the infant's head. Many clerics argue that baptism has in effect been made a mockery by unchurched parents who want their child...