Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Beyond such obvious clashes between traditions, Christianity has also suffered from its cultural identification with Western Europe and the U.S. Japanese Scholar Junyu Ki-tayama has observed that "in the West, God creates towers, churches and cities; in the East, mountains, rivers and gardens." The great Hindu poet Rabindranath Tagore...
Many problems facing the church in Asian countries today stem as much from changing social and cultural conditions as they do from traditional antinomies. In Ceylon, where the nation's 880,000 Roman Catholics constitute 7% of the population, the government's vigorous nationalization efforts since independence have...
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Who Is the Pope? In the Philippines, despite considerable social concern among the younger Catholic clergy since World War II, the hierarchy, especially Rufino Cardinal Santos, is too closely identified with the Establishment. To a growing number of critics, the church is still the handmaiden of riches and privilege. On...
Australian Catholics-who number about one-fourth of the population-face problems that are far more contemporary but no less painful. During the early postwar years, the church lost some prestige when hierarchy and laity split over the issue of Communist influence in the labor unions. Now the problem is...