Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Castiella took his case to Rome. During a private audience with Pope John XXIII, he brought out a copy of a bill that would grant freedoms to Protestants, and explained to the Pope how thousands of non-Catholics visit Spain during the tourist season. "Is it better for these people," he asked, "to spend their Sundays cavorting on the beaches, or worshiping God in their own way?" Answered the Pope: "You are right, my son. Leave the draft with me." Last fall, at the Vatican Council. Augustin Cardinal Bea of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity argued with Spanish bishops...
...hopeful talk of a peaceful coming together of Protestantism and Roman Catholicism, the conversation sooner or later gets down to Spain. The real Catholicism, say its most wary Protestant critics, is not to be found in the democratically coexisting church in the U.S. but in 99.7%-Catholic Spain. There, arch-conservative church leaders have for years treated Protestants with something of the hostility, though not the violence, that pagan Rome displayed toward the early Christians. Spanish laws theoretically grant the country's tiny (30,000) Protestant minority the right to the unhampered private exercise of their faith. But Protestant...
...Worried Official. A number of progressive Spanish Catholics have long suspected that the church's attitude to Protestantism is a major cause of anti-Spanish feeling in the world. One influential Spaniard who feels most strongly on the subject is Spain's Foreign Minister Fernando Maria Castiella y Maiz, 55, a Basque and a close friend of Malaga's reform-minded Bishop Angel Herrera. Six years ago, Castiella began sounding out Spanish prelates on the need to do something to ease non-Catholic tribulations in Spain. By way of setting an example, he persuaded the government...
Among other forebears of the Queen, not all recognized by Burke's, are Shakespeare, three clergymen, an innkeeper, Frederick the Great of Prussia, a plumber, and Spain's11th century hero, Rodrigo (El Cid) Diaz de Bivar. Elizabeth's surviving kinsfolk include eight-year-old Kira Alexandrine Harris of Amarillo, Texas...
...five-year-old son. At 31, he has long since become an Arabian film star nearly as celebrated as his wife, who is currently making her 80th picture, in Cairo. Since Sam Spiegel cast him in Lawrence, Omar has felt the pull of the West. He is now in Spain, ready to start work in Samuel Bronston's Fall of the Roman Empire. He plays an Armenian king who falls in love with Sophia Loren, beloved daughter of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. "It is not a very long part," says Omar grandly, "but it is pivotal. I believe that...