Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There are about 24.6 million Protestants in the South, 5.1 million Roman Catholics and 395,000 Jews. In the West, the figures go 6.1 million, 5.1 million and 494,000. For the rest of the country, the breakdown runs 30 million, 28.7 million, 4.4 million...
...debate about capital punishment is sprinkled with such terms as "sanctity of life" and "retribution," and "moral law" and "natural right," but they have largely disappeared from the debate during the past decade or so. Mainly among clergymen is the capital-punishment issue argued on moral-religious grounds. The Roman Catholic Church defends society's right to take a criminal's life as an act of collective self-defense, and a spokesman of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod says that "the Bible seems to permit the possibility of capital punishment." Several of the other religious groups...
...removed his only opponent (TIME, Feb. 29). For Vice President, Rhee and his Liberal Party nominated Lee Ki Poong, 63, an ailing automaton so unpopular that he has not campaigned at all. Four years ago Lee Ki Poong lost by more than 200,000 votes to the Democratic candidate, Roman Catholic John Chang...
...Roman Catholic bishop in predominantly Catholic Puerto Rico last week jumped broadly into the statehood v. commonwealth debate. In a letter to the New York Times, James McManus, the Brooklyn-born Bishop of Ponce, charged that Muñoz Marín, by saying repeatedly that Puerto Rico is "a proud, free, self-governing commonwealth, joined to the U.S. by her own choice," is eloquently ignoring the hard historical fact. The 1952 law that established the commonwealth, McManus pointed out, did not free Puerto Rico, but merely changed it from a "nonautonomous territory" to an "autonomous territory." In fact, said...
...Real World. Founded in 1894 by Charles McKim, a turn-of-the-century architect who designed Chicago World's Fair buildings in a borrowed Roman style, the academy began as a place for young U.S. architects to drink at the source of McKim's inspiration. Endowed partly by J. P. Morgan the elder and chartered by Congress, it soon took in artists and classicists. Now, aided by 50 U.S. colleges and universities, it stands as one of the finest overseas representatives of U.S. culture. Among its alumni: Playwright Thornton Wilder, Classicist Robert F. Goheen (see above), Novelists Ralph...