Word: rome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allowed to retain his Roman Catholic priesthood and his professorship at Tubingen? Is Paul VI fiddling while the Church of Rome burns? (Mrs.) Catherine M. Roders Cleveland...
...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...
...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 in matters concerning the Church universal...
...centralize administration to the detriment of local churches." The statement's main conclusion: to unite all Christians, primacy "needs to be realized at the universal level. The only see which makes any claim to universal primacy and which has exercised and still exercises [it] is the see of Rome...
Effect substitues for reality. From the initial credits on, one is not permitted to forget that the infinite number of European courts in which the action takes place were all constructed in Cinecitta ("movie city") just outside of Rome. In one sequence, Casanova rows a boat across the Venetian lagoon in a thunderstorm; he holds no oars, sits in no boat, and the wildly surging waves are obviously green plastic. The stock sound of water-in-a-storm fills the air... or is it the sound of plastic bags in a gale? Nature blurs into artifice. Casanova is first seen...