Word: schisms
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...failure of the party machinery and the party leaders to remember their national function, which, if carried out, was the justification of the varied weaknesses and absurdities of the party organizations and policies. Not until the party system broke down, in the dissolution of the Whigs, in the schism of the Democrats, was war possible." Similarly, it has been when one or another party isolated itself from the consensus-whether by reason of the cross-of-gold dogma of William Jennings Bryan in 1896 or the simplistic moralisms of Barry Goldwater in 1964-that the party system has been thrown...
Changes Considered. United Presbyterian spokesmen insist that "we are in no way nearing a point of schism." Nonetheless, they acknowledge that conservative feeling about the Confession runs high, and that some congregations may well withdraw from the church in a year or two unless substantial changes are made. Next month, a new 15-member committee of ministers and laymen will begin to study the text; they will consider changes suggested by churches, presbyteries and synods, submit a report to next year's General Assembly in Boston...
Today Protestant leaders are concerned about their fissiparous tendencies. Latin America already has more than 200 religious organizations, and the Brazilian Methodists are facing the threat of a schism. In Argentina and Ecuador, however, a number of Protestant churches have begun to explore the possibility of merger. Some Protestants fear also that their churches may be concentrating too exclusively on the minutiae of personal conduct; Brazilian Baptists, for example, had 10,000 converts last year but threw out 4,000 members for such sins as smoking and drinking. Protestantism thus may be missing the social implications in the message...
...think I am not being pessimistic in saying that a schism is to be feared by the end of the year," said Rouen's coadjutor, Archbishop Andre Pailler, last month; he foresaw that some French conservatives would leave the church rather than accept the liberal definitions of religious liberty and the church in the modern world that the Vatican Council will probably approve this fall...
Daunted by the national publicity given to his speech, Archbishop Pailler later explained that what he meant by "schism" was a spirit of disobedience toward the council's decrees rather than a formal split. Nonetheless, church observers believe that he would not have spoken out without the advice and consent of other bishops, and some French conservatives argue that the church is already suffering from a "silent schism" of Catholics who are "walking out on their tiptoes, leaving the church forever." The bishops face a touchy task of reconciliation in a land where those people who are serious about...