Word: schism
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...schism between these two groups is wider than ever. The liberal intellectual coalition with labor is breathing only with difficulty. The Vietnam war has choked off what few channels of communication existed between the academic community and the Democratic Administration...
DEMOCRATS Schism on the Left Eugene McCarthy's presidential challenge may not sunder the Democratic Party, but it has caused some damaging cracks in the liberal coalition of intellectuals and labor and civil rights leaders who make up the Americans for Democratic Action. Last week, after the A.D.A.'s board voted, 65 to 47, to endorse the Minnesota Democrat's campaign against the President, seven of its prominent members angrily resigned...
...from the recently formed Los Angeles Association of Laymen, 29 Jesuits from Loyola University, and ten priests and brothers from the city's Franciscan Theological Seminary. A rival lay group, affiliated with the conservative National Federation of Laymen, rallied to Mclntyre's cause. Worried about the developing schism, 28 other Loyola Jesuits asserted that the support voiced by their 29 colleagues for the sisters "does not represent the entire religious community at Loyola," and suggested that judgment not be made "until competent authorities in the church have rendered their decision...
Similar feelings had SANE foundering last week on the reefs of radical schism. To protest the move toward militant anti-Americanism- as well as what one official termed Dr. Spock's "ecumenical promiscuity" as cochairman, a post he reluctantly gave up earlier this month-14 of SANE's 45 national directors threatened to resign unless the course was instantly changed...
...this year's celebration-marking the 450th anniversary of Martin Luther's posting of his 95 theses at Wittenberg-is being shared in by Catholics as well as Protestants. For both branches of Western Christianity, the great Reformer is increasingly seen not as a symbol of past schism but as a potential focus for unity to come. "Rapprochement between Catholic and Protestant churches can come," says Lutheran Theologian Jürgen Winterhager of Berlin, "not despite but through the Reformation...