Word: schism
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...differences between East and West remain irreconcilable. The one sure thing is that for the first time since the alliance of the Western powers and the Soviet Union fell apart after World War II the nations of Europe are making a concerted effort to bring an end to the schism...
...several years now, the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern Presbyterians) has been rumbling with rumors and threats of schism. The mildly liberal majority of the 960,000-member denomination favor a merger with the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterians), which would heal a breach reaching back to the Civil War. Conservatives among the Southern Presbyterians are not only opposed to the merger but also to the liberals' emphasis on social action at the expense of evangelism and to a proposed new confession of faith that they consider doctrinally vague. Up to now, the right-wing...
...Pope Paul VI and Athenagoras in 1964 on Jerusalem's sacred Mount of Olives, where the two men exchanged a kiss of peace and prayed together. The next year, the Patriarch and the Pope officially revoked the mutual anathemas that had been hurled at the start of the schism between East and West in 1054. In 1967 they capped the new era of good feeling by exchanging visits at Istanbul and Rome...
...alive again. So, for that matter, were Edmund Muskie and any number of dark horses. What had promised to be a ritual endorsement next week at Miami Beach now loomed as a bitter and potentially fratricidal collision of McGovern insurgents and party regulars. The clash could cause a party schism that could destroy the Democrats' chances for victory against Richard Nixon in November...
...Democrats' disarray only adds to the self-confidence bordering on serenity that has overtaken the Republican Party in recent months. Quite aside from the Democrats' problems -the possibility of a McGovern nomination, which the G.O.P. would welcome, or a Democratic schism, which would be at least equally advantageous to the Republicans-the Nixon forces can savor all of the unique advantages of incumbency...