Word: rome
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the National Conference of Catholic Bishops gave its blessing to the same procedure in the U.S. Gathered in Chicago, 230 bishops agreed that they would have no objection to any American diocese requesting similar dispensation from Rome. For one thing, it would permit Catholics whose only occasion for relaxation is on Sunday to have some uninterrupted fun. Explained Auxiliary Bishop Gerald McDevitt of Philadelphia: "It would allow a man to have an opportunity for legitimate recreation, such as a day of skiing...
...hardly dare attempt a statement on the book's unity. Lowell says in his note that the theme connecting the translations in Rome, but that he does not quite understand how one couples Rome with the America of his own poems. I feel quite sure there is a unity, and that such a coupling can be made, but equally sure that it should be made in a suggestive way that remains open to modification. There are certain parallels between Juvenal-Lowell on Rome and Lowell on New York, for example. Consider the lines "Behind each bush perhaps a knife" ("Central...
Juvenal wrote soon after the dark reign of the emperor Domitian, and the subject of his satires is the corruption in Rome of the last two decades of the first century. Consideration of man's folly in the things he prays for is his topic in "The Vanity of Human Wishes," and leads to the more positive question: what should man pray for? Lowell, obviously as disturbed as Juvenal about his age, though perhaps for slightly different reasons, asks a yet more basic question: can we, at this point, find it in us to pray at all? I return again...
...book--if possible, today, April 21, as the celebration of an anniversary. Anyone wondering what Juvenal, Horace, Domitian and all the rest were doing on this date during their lifetimes could be reliably assured that they were celebrating the Parilia, the traditional birthday of the city of Rome. That was exactly 2,720 years...
...according to the Ryder-Westoff survey, have adopted some form of birth control other than rhythm. And though some Catholic doctors will not prescribe the pill for them, many others will. In heavily Catholic Massachusetts, its use is widespread. Says Norwood Gynecologist Francis C. Mason: "Despite the doubletalk from Rome, the pill is the most acceptable method of birth regulation. Use of the pill by a large Catholic population acts to make them psychologically sound and to create