Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sensing the country's mood, the Roman Catholic Church demanded wider religious freedom. In a letter to Dubcek, Bishop Frantisek Tomasek of Prague called for the return to Czechoslovakia of Primate Josef Cardinal Beran, 79. Cardinal Beran, whom the Communists kept under house arrest for 14 years, agreed to leave the country in 1965 in exchange for party concessions to the church; he is now living in the Vatican. Without fully suppressing it, the party has harassed the church for 19 years, even appoints the priests for some dioceses. Bishop Tomasek's letter also asked Dubcek to begin...
...Communist switch in tactics is the belief that Italy has become too prosperous to care much about Communist chimeras, yet just bothered enough to believe that a change of government might be good. In recent weeks, students protesting overcrowded classrooms have closed down or paralyzed eleven Italian universities, and Roman students waged a pitched battle with police that left hundreds wounded. Sicilian earthquake victims marched through the capital's streets in anger against the government's delay in providing relief. Every major Italian city was hit this month by massive walkouts of workers...
...Communists even intend to back some dissident Roman Catholic candidates. After World War II, Pope Pius XII threw the full weight of the Vatican behind the Christian Democrats and excommunicated any Italian who voted for Marxist parties-though millions continued to do so. Many Catholics regard the decisions of Pope John's Council, which dealt frankly with religious liberty and freedom of conscience, as freeing them to vote Communist in good conscience. The result has split the nation's Catholic intellectuals into two warring groups, the "conciliari," who follow the Council, and the "Pa-celliani," who hold...
Black comedy has spawned black farce. Loot is a saucy, unremittingly funny play, spewing its deftly poisoned darts at freshly dead mothers, dutiful fathers (Liam Redmond), marriage, the Roman Catholic Church, police stupidity and police brutality. It suffers, as do all "nothing sacred" plays, from the suspicion that the playwright, the late Joe Orton, was shocking no one quite so much as himself...
Founded in 1959 by a group of St. Louis parents, CEF has since grown to 150,000 members in 36 states. Though its supporters include some conservative Protestants and Orthodox Jews, the organization is 85% Roman Catholic-a fact reflecting the financial difficulties of the nation's Catholic parochial schools, which are hard pressed to keep up with rising teacher salaries and equipment costs. One of CEF's major arguments is that unless these schools receive more state help, they may collapse and saddle the public schools with their pupils. "It is not only our problem," insists...