Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world, 13.6 per 1,000 people, more abortions are performed than there are babies born each year. One out of every four Rumanian couples got a divorce last year, as did one out of every three Czechoslovakian couples in Prague. The divorce rate has even shot up in strongly Roman Catholic Poland...
...town that boasts the home offices of Eastman Kodak and Xerox, Rochester, N.Y., has a lot of candidates for a winner of its Salesman of the Year award. This year, though, the Chamber of Commerce passed up the boys with the order books and reached into the Rochester Roman Catholic Archdiocese to hail Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, 72, for his "outstanding job of selling Rochester to the country, to the world and to itself...
...Francisco recently, Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph McGucken signed the final contracts to build an $8,000,000 replacement for the old, Gothic St. Mary's Cathedral, which burned to the ground in 1962. Much to his surprise, a group of priests and laymen objected to his plans for the cathedral, on the grounds that the money should be used instead for humanitarian projects such as low-cost housing for the poor. The protesters cited Pope Paul's encyclical Populorum Progressio and the Vatican Council's Constitution on the Church in the Modern World in arguing against...
...having the confessional? We can hope not. You quote a pastor as saying that we should be thankful "that we still have one place left in the world where a man can speak freely and not fear retribution." Why should a man not be punished for murder? The Roman Catholic Church is not alone in encouraging the abrogation of individual responsibility: but the monstrous immorality of its stand in the Bartsch case demonstrates too well what effect official sanction of such abrogation can have...
Timeless Place. Last week, after three months of round-the-clock construction, Cooke's Forum opened on schedule. Despite the breakneck speed with which it went up, the colonnaded, Roman-style structure, designed by Los Angeles-based Charles Luckman Associates, is distinguished by its spectator-pleasing efficiency. For one thing, the arena has gone all out for color coding. On their arrival for the opening hockey game between the Kings and the Philadelphia Flyers, fans holding yellow tickets, for example, found that they parked their cars in a yellow-designated lot. They entered the arena at a yellow gate...