Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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University of Notre Dame Gregory Peter XV Cardinal Agagianian, Roman Catholic, Pro-Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith LL.D...
...Holy Sepulchre was destroyed by the Persians in 616 and by the Egyptians in 1009. But more disastrous to the shrine than its pagan enemies have been its Christian friends. Today the church is occupied by six Christian sects-Syrian Orthodox (Jacobite), Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, Coptic, Roman Catholic, Abyssinian- all of them so caught up in denominational jealousies that they cannot agree on repairs or on anything else. They hold their services in spaces as carefully marked as those in a parking lot, and about as large (the areas were frozen by Turkish Sultan Abdul Majid shortly before...
...border lines of sectarian prerogatives are patrolled more carefully than most international frontiers. Before Easter, for instance, the Roman Catholics, who claim the privilege of cleaning the outside of the windows, make a demonstration of standing by and watching while the Greek Orthodox-who also claim the privilege-actually do the cleaning. The Armenian Apostolic Church still claims the Chapel of Nicodemus, now used by the Syrian Orthodox, though the Armenians declare they have the keys. At least three violent incidents have resulted-once over the repairing of one of the doors, once over the possession of a closet, once...
Collapse Preferred. Since 1947 the Roman Catholics, the Greek Orthodox and the Armenians, the three groups which occupy most of the church, have been negotiating about repairs. The Catholics first demanded a complete restoration of the church, but the Greeks, fearing that restorations would uncover some former Roman Catholic sites that the Greeks had plastered over during a restoration in 1810 and might so endanger their position under the status quo, have advocated limiting all work to "consolidation." The Armenians have built up their own position by playing a balance-of-power game between the other two. A technical bureau...
IMPERIAL-CAESAR, by Rex Warner (393 pp.; Atlantic-Little, Brown; $5), recalls the fact that, perhaps because he campaigned on their island in 55-54 B.C., British writers have been markedly fond of Julius Caesar. From Shakespeare to Shaw, they have drawn a quasi-Churchil-lian portrait of the Roman dictator-arrogant and domineering on occasion, but indomitable in adversity, magnanimous in victory, farsighted in policy. British Author Rex Warner, an old hand at translating Caesar, has set out to fictionize him. In doing so, he carries fondness a step farther and tries to quash the lingering suspicion that Caesar...