Word: rsv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES No RSV, Please Each year, 10,000 U.S. infants die of lower-respiratory infections - more than half of them caused by a microbe with the forbidding name of "respiratory syncytial virus." Researchers have now devised a new vaccine against RSV...
Unhappily, it turns out to be a partial failure, according to evidence presented at a recent Manhattan virology conference. In fact, RSV has once again confronted virologists with the paradox that a vaccine sometimes worsens the dis ease it theoretically prevents...
...Oxford Bible approved for Catholics leaves the RSV text and footnotes unchanged; instead, two Catholic scholars-Jesuit Biblicist W. Van Etten Casey of Holy Cross and Father Philip King of St. John's Seminary in Boston-merely made a few additions to the Oxford annotations that were approved by the Bible's Protestant editors. One note, for example, says that according to Catholic doctrine the "brothers" of Jesus mentioned in the Gospels were really other relatives and points out that in Semitic usage the word encompasses a wide variety of blood relations. Another addition explains that the last...
Cushing's imprimatur means that the Oxford Bible can be freely read by Catholics for prayer and study-and use of the RSV even in Catholic worship is not out of the question. Many Catholic ecumenists believe that this Protestant-sponsored translation, which preserves much of the King James Version's stately prose, is the best all-round Bible available today, and one that most Christians can agree upon as an acceptable rendering of God's word...
Since the Confraternity Bible (TIME, May 28) is the official version for the Catholic Church in the U.S., the new RSV will only be used for private study and for interfaith discussion. Nonetheless, Cardinal Meyer wrote, it "should help usher in a happier age when Christian men will no longer use the Word of God as a weapon, but rather, will find God speaking to them within the covers of a single book...