Word: romes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...America of 1946 was discovered by the judges at the A.A.U.'s national weight-lifting tournament to be an ex-sailor named Alan Stephan. He came from Cicero, Ill. and looked like a collaboration between Rome's Michelangelo, Paris' Rodin and Manhattan's Bernarr MacFadden...
...Jewish Theological Seminary: ". . . It would give me great satisfaction if you would, from time to time, come to Washington to discuss the problems which all of us have on our minds." Nevertheless, many non-Catholics bridled at the new relation between the U.S. Government and the Church of Rome which looked to them like a breach of the traditional American separation between church and state.* Throughout the war, while Episcopalian Taylor carried on his Vatican activities with as little publicity as possible, Protestant bodies intermittently protested the presidential appointment...
...Roman Catholic Church was willing to go halfway or better. If accepting Chinese ways and customs would help win China to Rome, then those ways and customs would be accepted. It was not a new idea. In the 17th Century, Pope Paul V gave Jesuit missionaries permission to say Mass in Chinese.* But the permission was soon withdrawn, and Pope Clement XI later forbade some of the native customs which the Jesuits had allowed converts to retain...
Decline of the West. The Church is also changing its administrative complexion in China. Last week China's first cardinal-shy, humble Thomas Tien was on his way back from Rome. He will take up residence not in Tsingtao (his old vicariate) or Nanking (China's capital) but in Peiping. Explained a Vatican spokesman: "Peiping is the moral capital of China, essentially Chinese, least subject to Western influence...
...more significant sign of the decline of Western influence, the Vatican raised China from a missionary field, wholly dependent upon Rome, to metropolitan status much like that of the U.S. China will be entitled to 20 archbishops (the U.S. has 21), outranking the vicars apostolic (now bishops) who have hitherto captained Chinese Catholicism as personal delegates of the Pope...