Word: romans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tribe's council of elders, Mbarnoti is a big (6 ft., 180 Ibs.), 28-year-old schoolteacher who speaks excellent English and whose only ambition-until the elders tapped him last September-was to go to England to study. The son of a slave freed by French Roman Catholic missionaries, Edward herded cattle until he was nine, then, as his father's "love son" (or favorite), was sent to school. Converted to Catholicism, he ignored most of the various age rituals of the Masai (e.g., Masai aged 17-27 take turns sleeping in the communal hut with...
...pleased Clemente Marroquin Rojas, 62, last year's Vice President and now Agriculture Minister. Curmudgeon Marroquin Rojas, terrible-tempered owner-editor-publisher of the daily La Hora, holds nothing sacred. He has attacked his own boss, President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes ("General, watch yourself"), and the Roman Catholic Church ("greedy"). Recently, he took a pitchfork to the ICA. He complained that in ICA projects, "gringos run the show," snapped that the ICA Forestry School is "a useless luxury," called U.S. officials "impertinent...
...this point, just when he should have relaxed, the sick (cardiac disease), suspicious President picked a new fight with a more serious opponent: the Roman Catholic Church. On Duvalier's orders, his tough cops grabbed up Father Etienne Grienenberger. rector of St. Martial, Haiti's largest Catholic college, and Father Joseph Marrec, a small-town pastor, and hustled them roughly onto a New York-bound plane, expelling them from Haiti for "reasons of internal security...
...Council in 1961 (TIME, Feb. 9). Last week the Catholics took pains to allay the fears-at least for the present. At an informal conference. Pere Christophe Jean Dumont, head of a five-man Catholic contingent, explained that the Pope's first announcement had been misinterpreted; none but Roman Catholic bishops were ever to have been invited. Later, though, Pere Dumont tossed out the suggestion that some time in the future Orthodox and Roman Catholic leaders might sit down for a discussion of theological differences...
...Story. The photography is glorious but the religious picture is blurred as Audrey Hepburn plays a Roman Catholic nun whose choice between love of God and love of man comes hard...