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...WESTERN CATHOLIC CHURCH which Wills discusses, and it is that Church to which most American Catholics beong. The Western Church, built on the memories of the Roman Empire and with the permission of Constantine has always been more "this worldly" than its Eastern counterpart, built on the far less legalistic traditions of Greece. The orientation of the Western Church to the here-and-now, with its legal prescriptions as to what Catholics must do to be saved, has had its value. In many cases, it left American cardinals and bishops and priests free to deal with the powers that...
Many of the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania remain unchanged from colonial times, and when Liberal Democratic Governor Milton Shapp was elected two years ago, he promised sweeping reform. He reckoned without the strength of a revitalized conservative coalition in the state legislature, consisting of more than 100 Roman Catholics in both houses, mostly from urban and suburban areas, aided by like-minded rural legislators. Working together, the two groups represent a formidable constituency: Pennsylvania has four million Catholic residents and the highest rural population in the nation. The Governor also reckoned without State Representative Martin P. Mullen...
...North Side to first-generation Czechoslovak-American parents, he excelled in athletics in high school but turned down college football scholarships in order to study engineering at Purdue and join the naval ROTC. Married and the father of a nine-year-old girl, he is deeply religious (Roman Catholic), a friend of Vice President Spiro Agnew (who has dined at the Cernan home) and unashamedly patriotic. "For me," he says of the first lunar landing, "it wasn't that man first stepped out on the moon; it was that an American was planting the American flag...
...serious split has developed between the state and Spain's second most powerful entity, the Roman Catholic Church. Increasingly, liberal priests and bishops, spurred by Vatican II, want to separate church and state into what Madrid's Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancón last week described as a condition of "independence and cordiality...
...Vidal is also capable of delivering compact and provocative insight. On cliché analogies between the Roman Empire and the United States, for example: "I should not look to Rome for comparison but rather to the Most Serene Venetian Republic, a pedestrian state devoted to wealth, comfort, trade and keeping the peace, especially after inheriting the wreck of the Byzantine Empire, as we have inherited the wreck of the British Empire...