Word: schisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...austerer shrines, took one look and fled-"I thought maybe I had to be elected." One cutter, gingerly removing a Brooks Brothers jacket from a customer, murmured reproachfully: "Not, I think, one of ours, sir." But despite the awesome atmosphere and the great trousers schism, Americans keep coming to Savile Row for tailoring that is as smooth, in one cutter's words, as "a millpond in a heat wave." For it is hard to resist tailors whose purpose, avows Gerald Abrahams, chairman of the British Men's Wear Guild, is to "make you look stronger and slimmer...
...Erdman, 93, for 68 years a Presbyterian minister and church leader, who, during a doctrinal fight of the 1920s, served as a mediator between his own fundamentalist wing and the opposing liberal wing of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., in 1925 as moderator of the general assembly staved off a schism in the church; of heart disease; in Princeton...
...church. After the fall of the city, Mohammed rewarded Gennadius by appointing him the first Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek church under Islam. And one of Gennadius' first acts was to repudiate the Council of Florence's attempt to heal the 400-year-old East-West schism...
...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...