Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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But the archbishop's most symbolic encounter, before he moved on to Beiru and Istanbul, was with Roman Catholic Monsignor Alberto Gori, Roman Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem. Referring to his forthcoming meeting with the Pope, Dr Fisher told Monsignor Gori: "There are moments when I realize why divisions are...
Long the targets of novelists, sociologists and other worriers, the organization man and "groupthink" came under heavy fire last week from the U.S. hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church. Meeting at Washington's Catholic University for the annual bishops' conference, 227 prelates urged a rededication to the principle...
Too many pressures, the bishops said, are growing for "a constantly greater reliance on the collectivity rather than on the individual . . . Uniformity of thought and supine loyalty to the organization are too often encouraged and rewarded. The organizational man, cloaked in a sort of anonymity, rather than the responsible individual...
Although critics of "conformity" often include churches in their indictment the Catholic bishops blame the trend on the "marked decline in the force of religious convictions" in the U.S., combined with the rise of materialism and "situational ethics." Explained the bishops: "Through a faulty concept of morality, Modern Man has...
Withering Fruit. The decline of the sense of responsibility within "our general economic life" has led to a "lack of truly responsible leadership, both on the part of management and of labor." Internationally, a similar decline is shown by the feeling that "adherence to the United Nations absolves us from...