Word: latinity
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...restraint by the hierarchy of the United States, to which the Puerto Rican bishops belong. But 90% Catholic Puerto Rico, though a part of the U.S., has a Spanish-speaking population and Spanish traditions, and is considered by Rome and by the island's bishops a part of Latin America, where prelates are more active and less discreet in politics...
...director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith and one of Roman Catholicism's best preachers, Bishop Sheen was in Argentina last week lending his help to the biggest Catholic proselytizing crusade ever undertaken in Latin America. Its purpose: to counter the spread of anti-Catholicism that is sapping the church of its traditional strength. In all, Fulton Sheen made twelve TV appearances, said Mass in humble parish churches as well as in Buenos Aires' cathedral, delivered lectures at the University of Buenos Aires' law school and at the Holy Cross Institute...
...planned in Buenos Aires for almost two years, the crusade set up 1,200 mission centers in schools, warehouses, private homes, even in tents. Arrangements were made for round-the-clock prayers, meetings, processions and celebrations, for visits to hospitals, asylums, orphanages, slums and schools. Missionary priests from other Latin lands, Spain, France, Italy, Germany and Iron Curtain countries traveled to Argentina to help...
Still Suspect. Roman Catholicism has no greater stake anywhere than in Latin America. Its population of 180 million Roman Catholics represents one-third of the church's flock. Yet increasing numbers pay only lip service to their faith, either go to church merely for the pageantry or fail to attend altogether. The Jesuits, who were forced from the continent in-the 18th century,* are still few, and the Catholic clergy, once linked to anti-independence regimes, is still suspect. While Europe increases its priesthood, Latin America now has only about 8% of the world's Catholic clergy. Argentina...
...eight centuries, regulations have proliferated as fast as the ivy at Britain's tradition-loving Oxford University. Still technically on Oxford's books are Latin-couched laws forbidding gladiators, rope dancers and deer hunting on the premises. More irritating, because still enforced. are such medieval regulations as the one that imposes a midnight curfew on all undergraduates. Fighting the rules is generally futile. It is Oxford legend that when one modern undergraduate demanded the pint of ale to which he was entitled when taking examinations, the university proctors duly presented him with his tankard-together with a stiff...