Word: romanization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Strange things have a way of happening when rival teams venture onto the Notre Dame campus. Backed by the loudest, most rabid rooters this side of the Roman Colosseum, the Fighting Irish invariably play over their own heads-while their luckless opponents lose theirs-in an ear-shattering din that is roughly akin to playing inside a bass drum. Two years ago, for example, undefeated U.C.L.A. sailed into South Bend, Ind., and was scuttled in one of the most startling upsets of the season...
Stand Fast. Abortion foes promised action to match their wrath. Right to Life committees in Illinois and Texas quickly began planning a campaign for a constitutional amendment. The Roman Catholic Bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Affairs noted that "hospitals and health facilities under Catholic auspices will not find this compatible with their faith and moral convictions. We urge our doctors, nurses and healthcare personnel to stand fast in refusing to provide abortion on request." A Virginia group of Catholic laymen urged a "symbolic gesture": excommunication of William Brennan, the court's only Catholic and part of the majority...
...Detroit, a Roman Catholic advertising executive officiates at the wedding of his daughter. In New Mexico, an Air Force major conducts a Catholic burial service. In the high country of Bolivia, an Indian divides his time between farming and preaching the Gospel. These men are reviving an ancient form of Christian ministry that has been virtually unknown in Catholicism for centuries. They are ordained, permanent deacons...
Some deacons complain that parish priests see them as "unpaid janitors." Some priests, for their part, resent the fact that a few deacons wear the Roman collar, a practice that local diaconate program directors would like to stop. More important, there is increasing pressure from women to be ordained as deacons, as they are in the Episcopal Church.* Though there are no theological obstacles to such a move-indeed, there seems to be precedent for it among early Christians-Rome is likely to yield only slowly to the concept...
...clergy' and 'celibate clergy' who will preach, officiate, baptize and lead, with many Catholics making their choice between the two for their 'real' clerical leadership." Devine's expectation of tensions is reasonable enough, but it would be sorry evidence of a failure of Roman Catholic nerve should the diaconate experiment be ruined by professional rivalries before it gets a fair trial...