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...Roman Catholic Church has been sympathetic to the President in the past. While a vocal minority of priests and laymen has strongly opposed the war, the Catholic hierarchy had always refused to take a stand against it. But at a Washington convocation last week, the church's American bishops approved a resolution calling for an end to the war "with no further delay." "At this point in history," the bishops' statement read, "it seems clear to us that whatever good we hope to achieve through continued involvement in this war is not outweighed by the destruction of human...
...Anyanya rebels' commander in chief. The borderline area that separates the black Christian south from the brown Muslim north has become the scene of international intrigue on a grand scale, he said. He implicated, in varying degrees, CIA operatives, Peace Corps people, British intelligence, relief organizations, the Roman Catholic Church, Israel, Ethiopia and Uganda. Through his German-speaking Sudanese lawyer, Steiner pleaded that he was not a cold hired killer but a kind of khaki-clad White Knight destined to right the wrongs of black Africa...
...mission, scientists hope for much closer shots that will actually show surface features of these tiny bodies, which are so small (only a lew miles in diameter) that they appear as mere dots in earthbound telescopes. Closeup photographs of Phobos and Deimos (named after the sons of Mars, the Roman god of war) could finally put to rest the imaginative theory of Soviet Astrophysicist I.S. Shklovskii. In an attempt to explain certain peculiarities-now attributed to misinterpretation of data-in the orbit of Phobos. Shklovskii suggested in 1959 that the moonlet might be hollow, possibly a satellite lofted by some...
ROME-Now that the third session of the international Synod of Roman Catholic Bishops is over, what has really taken place? The synod, like the two others held since the Second Vatican Council, was less than the council had intended when it recommended such meetings as a way for the bishops to have a continuing voice in church developments. Today's synods, unable to exercise any real power of their own, merely advise the Pope of the bishops' thinking on subjects of import. This time the subjects were of import indeed: the crisis in the priestly ministry...
...seems almost sacrilegious to yawn at Rome, even in the secular sense. The city is still overwhelmingly attractive, indeed seductive: an Eternal City, according to the cliché, insinuating its spirit of timelessness into those who visit it. That attribute may be unfortunate for Roman Catholic churchmen. For while one can stand in Rome, innocently confident that the Catholic world still spins around the Vatican in reverent orbit, the facts are different. There are times when the center cannot hold, as Yeats said. Most especially it cannot hold when it is the center of an institution that fails to comprehend...