Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel so much better about myself," declared Mary Elizabeth, 21, explaining her starry-eyed dissent, which is echoed by her twin brother Tim's adamant refusal to accept either a student deferment or the draft. Uppermost in prompting her decision to renounce martial ways is her intense Roman Catholic faith; her horror of war was reinforced by the sight of Marines in boot camp at Parris Island, S.C., and "the lost look in their eyes...
...Revolution, a prime example, was followed by farmer uprisings over debts and taxes-the Shay and Whisky rebellions. In the mid-1800s, the nativist Know-Nothings fought rising Irish political power by killing Roman Catholics, burning churches and ultimately controlling 48% of the House of Representatives. In 1863, the Irish, fearing that Negroes would take their jobs while they were drafted into the Civil War, conducted a frightful race riot in New York City that killed an estimated 2,000 people and injured 8,000. The Civil War killed 500,000 soldiers-the equivalent of 3,000,000 in today...
...white Americans, the televised services for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church marked their first opportunity to observe the soul and spirit of the black man's Christian faith. Compared with the austere and stately worship at most mainstream Protestant or Roman Catholic churches, the funeral service was almost unbearably emotional. The simple, old-fashioned hymns, sung with tearful intensity by the church choir, were pure "soul"; a succession of black-robed speakers praised the memory of Dr. King in fustian oratory rich with Biblical imagery. In effect, it was a crystalline...
...sprightly surprises of Roman Catholicism's renewal movement is the fact that women, as well as men, are calling for further church reform. Since the end of the Second Vatican Council, the church in the U.S. has been subject to a paper barrage of theological journalism produced by young, concerned, college-educated Catholic laywomen. Invading the traditional masculine province of theology, these teachers, writers, editors (and housewives) have challenged existing attitudes toward contraception, divorce and, more recently, wider questions involving other doctrines of the church. Three of these lively damsels-errant have recently produced books that suggest the range...
...Maundy Thursday, at Rome's St. John Lateran Cathedral, Pope Paul VI ceremoniously washed and then kissed the feet of twelve Roman Catholic seminarians. It was a symbolic re-enactment of the Last Supper, at which Jesus, according to John, washed the feet of the Twelve Apostles as a sign that he was both the servant and Lord of mankind. The ritual, which was devised in medieval times, is carried out once a year at major cathedrals. In Rome, however, it was dropped at the death of Pope Pius IX in 1878; John XXIII revived the custom...