Word: romes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pope last week was also concerned about estrangement within the church. Shortly before his visit to Taranto, he announced that he was summoning a second synod of bishops to meet in Rome, starting next...
...Christianity early in its history underwent an earth-shaking trauma: the fall of Jerusalem. In A.D. 70, the legionaries of the Emperor Vespasian and his son Titus put down a four-year rebellion led by a group of Jewish rebels known as the Zealots, and destroyed the city. In Rome, where Titus returned in triumph brandishing trophies from the ruined Temple, feelings were running high against Jewish intransigence in general and the Zealot rebellion in particular. In this climate of fear, argues Brandon, Mark wrote the first Gospel for the young Roman church. Because his audience was already suspect...
Almost every other day, it seems, Pope Paul issues a new admonition against Roman Catholic priests, bishops and laymen whom he considers to be flirting with heresy for their challenge to the magisterium of Rome. Last week, 38 leading theologians answered the Pope by releasing a statement that demanded, in effect, a Magna Carta of intellectual freedom in the church...
...perilous, seemingly impossible ' assignment of exploring the secret world of the Arab commandos for this week's cover story fell principally to Beirut Bureau Chief Edward Hughes. Meanwhile Jerusalem Stringer Marlin Levin and Rome Correspondent John Shaw pursued essential details on the Israeli side...
...Vatican has never been exactly pleased with the best-selling but controversial "Dutch Catechism" (TIME, Dec. 1, 1967). Last week a firm-and presumably final-order to change the text in the direction of orthodoxy went out from Rome...