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...years-or 3,500 years. These are the 35 to 40 million people-mostly women, and especially housewives-who watch the soap operas each week. To them, woman's lot is as deliciously full of predicament, villainy and suffering as when Our Gal Sunday and Helen Trent endured a crisis a day on the radio a generation...
...still have the strong leading woman whom viewers like to identify with," says Doris Quinlan, producer of ABC's One Life to Live. "But we are writing men with more guts than we used to. Helen Trent had 14 fiances, and none of them were worthy...
...only six years ago, at the end of Vatican II, that the Catholic Church seemed to be glowing with new health. What happened? And why? One factor in the upset was Vatican II itself. For four centuries, ever since the Council of Trent countered Protestant reform by consolidating Catholic belief and practice, it had been clear enough what was Catholic and what was not. Though the church frequently required personal sacrifice or demanded personal hardship, it seemed to have all the answers. Vatican II forever changed that, and some people never forgave...
From the days of the Council of Trent, Protestantism has been virtually an underground movement in Spain. Baptist missionaries from Sweden and the U.S. began work there in 1870 under a short-lived religious-freedom law, but later on the small churches were often shut down. Only since a new law was passed in 1967 have the 10,000 Baptists and other non-Catholics been able to hold public meetings. But the specially warm welcome the Baptists received was also probably the result of recently strained relations between the government and the Catholic Church, which outdid each other in greeting...
...letter, Kelly noted that the Second Vatican Council had found "new and richer dimensions" to replace the rigid church conceived by the Council of Trent-the 16th century ecclesiastical assembly that shored up Catholic walls against the Protestant Reformation. He described "the church in which we grew up" as almost completely withdrawn from the world. "It was a church in which discipline and order and conformity to the minutest rubric were paramount values, a church increasingly irrelevant and unintelligible to men." In Detroit, he said, he lost all hope for change: "Discussion is impossible...