Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crisis Sunday. In Boston, Jewish philanthropies donated buildings valued at $1,250,000 for a community and cultural center in the Roxbury slum. In Washington, Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle announced a moratorium on all new Roman Catholic church building and improvements so that funds would be freed to "help relieve the chronic causes of poverty in our midst." In Portland, Ore., the Council of Churches designated May 5 "Summer Crisis Sunday," when each congregation will be asked to provide decent jobs for slum dwellers and help provide support for summer programs...
Breathless Accounts. Young people have organized into associations to combat the briganti, have tacked up posters denouncing their terrorism and sought to expose townspeople who collaborate with them. From their pulpits, the island's Roman Catholic priests have declared a moral war on the bandits. The mayor of the northern town of Nuoro has demanded their punishment, crying, in Sardinia's Latinate dialect, "Zustissia cherimm!" (We want justice!). Nearly 1,000 shepherds and hunters have joined carabinieri and police dogs in searching for the bandits' mountain hideouts in the island's northwest. In recent weeks, they...
Caught between rising costs and ever greater demands for academic excellence, the nation's Roman Catholic parochial schools are in trouble. Last week, an official of the National Catholic Educational Association estimated that in the past year more than 200 schools had shut down. Concurrently, Archbishop Terence J. Cooke of New York announced that he had named an interfaith commission of education and business experts to undertake a survey of his archdiocese's 432 schools. "We must be certain," said Cooke, "that the resources, personnel and facilities of the church are employed in the best possible manner...
...broaden their contacts with La Porte's youth, the Marists-all of whom have master's degrees-were given permission to serve as substitute teachers in the public high school. The only conditions made were that they not wear Roman collars and habits in class, and that students address them not as "Brother" but as "Mister." Says School Superintendent Harold Margrave, who classifies himself as a "softshell Baptist": "We've had nothing but mutual understanding and respect. We feel as though we've gained a service for the public school." Other leaders in the community feel...
...revival-meeting combustion that lies somewhere between caterwauling and glossolalia. But prose style is one of the minor differences between Updike and his contemporaries. The larger fact is that however valid his own objectives and achievements, he has ignored the mainstream of contemporary Western fiction. The French, in the roman nouveau, have reduced the novel to a random series of received sounds and images; the English are tearing apart seven centuries of established order...