Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Despite the problems facing the church in the Eastern Hemisphere, there are measurable gains. Prodigious Roman Catholic relief efforts in Hong Kong-second only to government efforts-have so impressed refugees in the Crown Colony that the number of Chinese Catholics there (247,000) approaches the total number on Taiwan...
The question remains whether the Vatican can woo a far tougher opponent: China's Mao Tse-tung. In recent years, Pope Paul has delicately noted that the church favors the "just expression" of social changes in China, but Mao has been slow to reply. The land once so open...
While Pope Paul VI journeyed through Asia to considerable welcome, Britain's Archbishop of Canterbury made a quieter, less congenial trip through the white towns and black "homelands" of the Republic of South Africa. After a 16-day, 3,000-mile journey in the apartheid state, the head of...
Ramsey had hoped, perhaps naively, to soften apartheid attitudes on his visit, but a 40-minute meeting with South African Prime Minister B.J. Vorster to discuss the subject was openly "frosty," witnesses reported. Ramsey made no secret of his own opinion. Apartheid, he told one multiracial audience, is "a hindrance...
Ramsey ruled out "any form of violence" as an acceptable solution to the nation's race problems. "Christians are not called to violence, and indeed violent revolution in this country might have the most ghastly and tragic results. But time is short. When all civilized channels are closed, men...