Word: schism
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...assignment came from Pope Pius XII, who was said to be irked that the cardinal had left his post. But John XXIII, deeply concerned over the Chinese Communists' efforts to establish a tame "national" Catholic Church in schism from Rome, felt that Cardinal Tien could serve on Formosa as a rallying point for Asian Catholicism and as a symbol of papal interest in the Far East...
Meanwhile, the population is rising faster and faster. Within 40 years, "if the Church loses Latin America, she loses one-half of her worldwide population. And that could be a crisis within the Church even more serious than the Oriental Schism or the Protestant Reformation." To get more priests, says Father Vekemans, there must be "a big movement of the Catholic countries all over the world toward Latin America. In other words, we lave to see Latin America as a real mission territory-the mission territory of our century...
...week's big news from the Moslem world: serious efforts are being made to heal a schism that has divided Islam for more than 1,000 years...
...dramatically pressing a drive to reconcile the two sects. Sheik Chaltout years ago began wooing ulamas (Koranic scholars) of both sides with learned societies and a liberal theological monthly that is still going strong. Striking now with Nasser's support at the very root of the schism-the university itself, which for centuries condemned Shiite doctrine as heresy-the rector has ordered his staff to stop favoring Sunnis, start teaching courses in Shiite beliefs. "This will have far-reaching effects in realizing Moslem brotherhood," said Sheik Mohamed Medani, dean of the university's theological faculty. Addressing Shiites over...
What mankind now needs, Author Koestler strongly implies, is a great sleepwalker who could resolve the tragic and longstanding schism between science and faith. Otherwise, he fears, science will become simply "the new Baal, lording it over the moral vacuum with his electronic brain...