Word: vatican
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Last year Yugoslavia underwent a series of events unprecedented under a Communist regime. Tito signed a protocol with the Vatican, purged-and then reprieved-his leading reactionary lieutenant, Aleksandar ("Marko") Ran-kovic, and released from 41 years in prison his archcritic, liberal Author Milovan Djilas. In the first such defiance in a Communist state, Slovenian party members bucked their boss, State President Janko Smole, over a planned austerity program, and forced his temporary resignation. The Yugoslav state security agency, UDBA, was cut back by 5,000 cops, and deprived of its power to interrogate suspects outside of court. Most important...
...advanced against the Viet Nam war are generally put in terms of the just-war principles, and they move quickly from moral abstraction to practical questions. Among the chief arguments: > Aggression or Civil War. A government's right to make war in self-defense was reaffirmed by the Vatican Council in a statement that otherwise direly warned against the evil of total war. Some Viet Nam critics believe that the Korean War involved a legitimate case of self-defense because the Communist attack occurred clearly across an established border line, and was carried out by an organized army; besides...
Questions & Answers. A major source of restlessness in convents is the uncertainty and questioning inspired by the Second Vatican Council. Time was, says Mother Benedicta of the Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, when women fled from the world into convents "in order not to be corrupted by it." Far too many immature girls, adds Psychologist Marie Francis Kenoyer of the Sisters of Loretto, accepted "poverty to escape financial responsibility, obedience to escape decisionmaking, chastity to escape involvement and the demands of love." The Council caused many nuns to ask themselves for the first time whether they had genuine...
...Vatican Council which has made Murray's appearance in Mem Church possible. Before the Council's endorsement of ecumenism, the prevailing custom of Roman Catholics was not to take part in services in Protestant churches, Price said...
...title of Murray's sermon is "Age of Renewal." Price said he will speak about the Vatican's Council impetus to renew the Christian church at large. Murray, a professor of theology at Woodstock College, was a prominent participant in the Ecumenical Council Vatican...