Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Ceylon was the last stop, and a surprising one. There the Pope was greeted by Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike and a crowd of at least 500,000. The country's highest ranking Buddhist monk was on hand to declare that the Pope's visit "will help all us...
Paul had already made his real peroration earlier that day in Hong Kong. His major address in the Crown Colony was studiously unpolitical, though he addressed it to "all the Chinese people wherever they may be." In a sense, it might have been addressed to all those who wondered what...
HOPE PAUL'S trip was a journey to not one world but two. Australia and Asia are divided by more than the geographers' distinction of continents. They are antipodal cultures, the polar extremes that Roman Catholicism must somehow embrace under the same mantle. Australia is the Eastern archetype...
During the 16th and 17th century missionary campaigns in Asia, several of the early Jesuit efforts were impressively productive. In China, Father Matteo Ricci put on the dress of a Confucian scholar and won widespread respect both for his scientific expertise and for the wisdom of Catholic teaching. In India...
Ancestor Cult. Yet such early techniques rarely developed into policy. The Jesuit methods in China scandalized the rival Franciscans, who did not approve of such cultural accommodation. A century-long controversy developed around the "rites" issue-whether or not Chinese Christian converts could be permitted to retain their cult of...