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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eight years since the end of the Second Vatican Council, the Roman Catholic left has commanded much of the public's attention. Escalating protest has often led to the slamming of doors-priests leaving their ministry, nuns leaving their orders, theologians like Britain's Charles Davis dropping out of the church entirely...
...broad spectrum: they stretch all the way from small bands of angry dissidents who are in open defiance of the Pope's reforms to even-voiced, literate and intellectually respectable loyalists. There is considerable disagreement among them. But they share to varying degrees the conviction that the Roman Catholic Church in the wake of Vatican II is tolerating far too much diversity in doctrine and practice, and many of them are trying to mount something of a counterreformation...
...could be done. "There is a substantial element in the church that has accepted the changes but is dismayed by the never-ending process of eroding the traditions," he says. It is this erosion that Hitchcock is trying to halt. If it is not stopped, he warns, "Roman Catholicism has the potential to be just another Protestant denomination," splitting into "fundamentalism or vague liberalism." The conservatives' struggle may be long but, he believes, "the trend is not irreversible...
...lower orders. The ball can be thrown into play, but play itself is a matter of booting. Most nations cling to the original English name-futbol or fussball or, for the Scots, fu'bo'. But the Italians logically call it il calcio (or if they're Roman, er carcio), meaning "the kick." It is perhaps the only human game theoretically playable by birds...
...clear that the patient is beyond further help. The living are counseled to ease the dying person's final agony by keeping him company during his last hours. This approach to terminal illness (TIME Essay, July 16, 1973) has won wide support, including the approval of Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish moralists...