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Desegregation began quietly, almost stealthily, in South Africa's white Roman Catholic schools. Last March, after the nation's bishops endorsed integration "in principle," a dozen blacks, Asians and mixed-race coloreds enrolled in three schools. The national government, which enforces strict racial segregation in all state schools, warned that the church's move was "contrary to established policy"-but it took no action to stop it. Nor did white parents protest...
...Hampshire is only one of many reasons to watch The Pallisers. In the grand tradition of The Forsyte Saga and Upstairs, Downstairs, the series is elegant, historical soap opera, complete with duels, lecherous dukes, love lost and found, intrigue in the Houses of Parliament, exquisitely smart costumes and roman tic settings amid the topiary...
Pope Paul VI himself has said it: his own office is "unquestionably the most serious obstacle on the path of ecumenism." A significant step toward overcoming that obstacle was taken last week when an official commission of Anglican and Roman Catholic theologians announced their agreement that "in any future union a universal primacy" should be held by the "see of Rome...
...traditional Roman Catholic doctrine that Jesus Christ appointed Peter as the first Pope ("You are Peter and on this rock I will build my church"), and that the papal succession has continued unbroken ever since. The 20-member commission's statement, completed at a meeting last summer in Venice, skirts the dogmatic problem by describing the papacy as a position of leadership that evolved to meet the needs of a growing church. It says that the see of Rome originally became "prominent" because both Peter and Paul died in that city, and it "eventually became the principal center...
Three Noises. The Rev. Thomas Meersman, the Roman Catholic prison chaplain, intoned the last rites. Fortified by a bit of contraband whisky smuggled into the prison, Gilmore remained calm as the state medical examiner pinned a target over his heart. Nor did he flinch when the doctor fitted the black corduroy hood over his head. Then the priest placed his hand on Gilmore's shoulder. Tilting his head, the condemned man, who was reared as a Catholic, spoke his last words: "Dominus vobiscum [The Lord be with you]." Replied Father Meersman: "Et cum spiritu tuo [And with your spirit...