Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opportunity to talk seriously to his audiences abroad and back home as well. He emphasized that his trip, far from being an electioneering gimmick, was undertaken with the compelling purpose of redefining America's role in the Pacific while encouraging Asia's emerging nations toward a new spirit of regional unity and cooperation. Whether or not they can succeed, Johnson repeatedly made clear, is a question that cannot even be asked until the war is ended. Yet at the very beginning of his trip, even before leaving Dulles International Airport, the President emphasized that the problems of pacification...
...earning their own way, and been able to provide their families with the marvelous products of a momentous age. Nor has America ever been healthier, nor had more of her children in school and in college. Nor have we ever had more time for recreation and refreshment of the spirit, nor more ways and places in which to study and to enrich our lives through the arts...
...change has come slowly. To get on with reform, a study group of the Canon Law Society of America-representing the U.S. experts who teach and explain the church's juridical code-met this month in Pittsburgh and put forth a series of recommendations for carrying out the spirit of Vatican...
Elected Bishops? In the same spirit, the study group, which included theologians and Biblical experts as well as canon lawyers, proposed restoration of the ancient tradition by which laity and priests participated in the selection of bishops and elimination of free-and-easy transfer of bishops from see to see. Other proposals...
...commission suggests that reform of canon law will be slow and cautious, Monsignor Willem Onclin, its Belgian co-secretary, was present at the meeting of the U.S. Canon Law Society that received the study group's proposals, and returned to Rome astounded and pleased by the adventurous spirit of the suggested reforms. The recommendations will be received "with gratitude," Onclin assured the Americans...