Word: schisms
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...precedes all Episcopal ordinations: "If any of you know any impediment or crime because of which we should not proceed, come forward now and make it known." Immediately Indiana Layman Robert 'Strippy rose to condemn the proceedings as "heresy" and "sacrilege." Said he: "The result can only be schism from the body of Christ." With that a dozen people, many of them in tears, marched out of the church...
...schism started a month ago at an OPEC price-setting conference in Qatar, when Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani and his allies in the Emirates refused to go along with the majority's demand for a 10% hike on Jan. 1, to be followed by a further 5% hike at midyear. The Saudis and the U.A.E. limited their increase to 5% for the full year. Thus, for the first time since OPEC began quintupling petroleum prices in late 1973, the oil cartel split into opposing camps. In order to hold down prices, the Saudis, who are OPEC...
...such a move, its appeal in the U.S. is doubtful. A number of priests in the U.S. still defiantly say the forbidden Tridentine Mass, but their bishops generally ignore them, content to remind Catholics that the Mass is illicit. Some of these priestly recalcitrants might conceivably join a Lefebvre schism; at least one was at the Lille Mass. But the conservative Catholic press in the U.S. has warned readers that Lefebvre's actions are wrong, and loyally backed Pope Paul...
...will matter, for it will give the nation a clear-cut choice between opposing economic and social policies that will influence America's course for decades. The Republican Party came away with one more, possibly last chance to sell its programs to the country and avoid a later, fatal schism or the danger of fading into insignificance...
...fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter of fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful ..." Arnold Toynbee, in his monumental A Study of History, charted Rome and America through similar cycles of triumph, disintegration and collapse; like the empire of Augustus and Tiberius, imperial America could end in "a schism in the soul...