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...patent attorney, Wilson was born in Manhattan but has lived most of his life in suburban Yonkers. A devout Roman Catholic who attends Mass every day, he graduated from Fordham Law School. At 24, Wilson won a seat in the state assembly. He acquired a reputation as a meticulous, sometimes plodding legislator who epitomized conservatism in both politics and private life...
...days when President Nixon was criticizing the morals of others rather than defending his own, he used to speculate about whether the U.S. had entered a Roman decline, what with so much permissiveness around. The argument is familiar: the church has lost its authority, parents are too soft, and every new Gallup or Harris poll shows a decline in the public's confidence in all institutions. But it is fair to ask: Were things really better when respectability was in flower and authority spoke in plummy, assured tones? Historians, whose occupational peculiarity is to find the past at least...
...Even the Roman Catholic Church, long a bulwark of the government, has begun to show discontent. Only this month six priests who had been arrested for various political offenses finally agreed to end a 16-day hunger strike in the Zamora Prison after their bishops had intervened with Franco. Many younger priests and bishops are now more in sympathy with the workers than with the government. The censored press, which has generally downplayed the unrest, felt called upon to note the fact that the Guardia Civil had discovered eight dynamite cartridges and "a mass of subversive literature" at a convent...
...Roman Catholics and evangelical Protestants seem to sympathize more with the intense Jewish concern for Israel than do liberal Protestants. Pope Paul VI, of course, can still be critical of Israel. Just two days before the Yom Kippur War, when he received a new Syrian ambassador to the Holy See, the Pope complained that "The Palestinian people, living miserably, plead that their right to self-determination be recognized." Last week Paul also expressed concern over the fate of Jerusalem's holy places-a thorny political and religious issue that will involve intra-Christian negotiations as well as talks between...
...publication of the accord was approved by both Pope Paul VI and the Archbishop of Canterbury. But the commission's Anglican and Roman Catholic chairmen were careful to point out that the document was only "an agreed statement of the commission and nothing more." Any action to increase ecumenical exchange between Anglicans and Catholics will have to come from the hierarchies of the two communions. Moreover, there is still a major stumbling block: the Roman Catholic doctrine of the infallibility and primacy of the Pope...