Word: vatican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...response to whispering campaigns against the threat of Protestantism. Conservative Party Dictator Gómez was convinced that all Protestants were members of the Liberal Party and hence his mortal enemies. Just before Gómez was overthrown by Rojas in 1953, his government signed an agreement with the Vatican cutting two-thirds of the country into 18 mission territories in which only Catholic churches and schools could operate. Rojas carried on where his predecessor left off, suggesting that Protestants and Communists were indistinguishable from one another and shutting down close to 30 Protestant churches in the mission territories...
...practicing Roman Catholic, I must say that I have nothing but contempt for those ungracious, unsympathetic remarks made by a Vatican spokesman against Archbishop Rummel's views on integrating whites and Negroes (Aug. 19). What New Orleans...
...Vatican radio, edit the Vatican newspaper, staff Rome's Gregorian University (for ecclesiastics), whose alumni include Pope Pius XII as well as 13 previous Popes, 77 cardinals, 686 bishops and eight saints...
Jesuits are encouraged to develop their special talents or interests, ranging from archaeology to automation, from deciphering the Dead Sea Scrolls to spotting the latest comet in the telescopes of the Vatican Observatory at Castel Gandolfo. Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who died in 1955, was a paleontologist of world renown who unearthed conclusive evidence that the so-called Peking man discovered in China in 1929 was human. Father Francis J. Heyden of Georgetown University is a recognized expert on eclipses. Many
...Trinity Priory near Pittsburgh, as well as at Fordham and in Rome. The Russian Orthodox Church would have been better able to resist the inroads of Communism, said the Very Rev. Joseph Olsr of Rome's Pontifical Oriental Institute, if it had been able to draw on the Vatican's experience in "fighting against anti-Christian tendencies...