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Male chauvinism may be too strong a term, but the word from Pope Paul VI hardly endorsed Women's Liberation. Reaffirming the Roman Catholic Church's opposition to abortions ("abominable crimes"), the Pope took a cold look at "feminine emancipation" and "socalled sexual liberty." True emancipation does not lie in "materialistic equality," he said, but in "recognition of that which is essential and specific in the feminine personality-the vocation of the woman to be a mother...
...symbolic stumbling block to unification of Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic is Article 44 of the Republic's 1937 constitution. It recognizes "the special position of the Holy Catholic Apostolic and Roman Church as the guardian of the Faith professed by the great majority of the citizens...
...Asia Minor city of Myra. Or at least a part of him came. Relics of the saint-fragments of his skull and a vial of oily substance said to have oozed from his skull-were formally enshrined in St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Flushing. A gift from the Roman Catholic Church to the Greek Orthodox, the relics were sent to New York from the cathedral in Bari, Italy, where other relics of the saint remain. Nicholas' bones had been brought to Bari in the 11th century after being stolen from Myra by Italian soldiers. Little is known about...
...Last winter the small U.S. branch of the Roman Catholic Order of the Most Holy Trinity raised some eyebrows by soliciting religious vocations in a Playboy ad. Last week the Trinitarians took an ad in the Sunday New York Times to announce the returns from Playboy: more than 700 responses from college men, 30 of whom have already been accepted for training. Among them are black, white, Chicano and American Indian candidates. Nine respondents who had no church affiliation are now taking religious instructions. Others wrote asking for guidance in becoming ministers or rabbis. The Times ad appealed for contributions...
...family, friends and enemies. He breathes life into Old Friend Maecenas, generous patron of the poet Horace but a terrible versifier himself, and the fluttery Ovid, burlesqued by Williams in a splendidly overblown poem. The most vivid character is Augustus' daughter Julia, a Becky Sharp of the Roman salon...