Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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France's third heart-transplant patient is a man to whom the ethics and morality of the procedure are of more than usual concern. Father Damien Boulogne is a former professor of philosophy at Dominican seminaries. Two years ago, the priest had suffered a series of heart attacks that left him to tally disabled. Now 57, Father Damien got his new heart at the Hôpital Broussais-La Charité in Paris, where he is now recovering in sterile isolation. From there he wrote for La Vie Catholiqué an account of the soul-searching that preceded...
Loudest Protest. Now 168 journalists -nearly a third of Madrid's press corps -have sounded the loudest protest yet against the regime's renewed press crackdown. They wrote an angry letter to Information Minister Manuel Fraga Iribarne, which has not been published but which was widely quoted in Madrid last week...
...Third Assembly of the World Council of Churches took place in 1961; in mood and spirit, it might have been 50 years away from the Fourth Assembly. At New Delhi, World Council delegates were still primarily concerned with the ecclesiastical and theological problems of church union. The marching orders issued by the Fourth Assembly in Uppsala, which ended last week, were primarily secular rather than sacred. In a series of concrete, specific resolutions, the 700 delegates from 235 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox churches at the Uppsala meeting called upon their fellow Christians to redirect their attention to the social, political...
...large extent, the worldly orientation of the messages reflected the growing influence of churchmen from the "third world" of Africa, Asia and Latin America, who are less concerned with theological niceties than with committing the church to support of the poor and the underprivileged. There were 32 delegates from developing nations, for example, on the 105-man committee that drafted the document on peace and international justice, which not only condemned the use of nuclear weapons in war but also gave support to the idea of selective pacifism. Traditionally, Christian moral theology has accepted conscientious objection only...
...Third-world delegates also had a large hand in shaping the council's statement on world economic and social devel opment, which underscored the gap between rich and poor nations. The document declared that it was the "duty" of churches in industrialized nations to influence their governments on behalf of increases in foreign aid and trade agreements favoring underdeveloped lands. One proposal that is likely to get lukewarm response was that individual Christians, through voluntary donations, give a percentage of their own income to development aid, making up the difference between what their governments spend on this cause...