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...overall mood in Washington and Western Europe was one of deep worry. As Stefano Silvestri of Rome's Institute for Foreign Affairs put it, the tone of Andropov's reply seemed "to suggest the bad temper of Khrushchev at the beginning of the '60s, and that of course brings memories of the Berlin crisis, the Cuban missile crisis and all the rest." Against that gloomy backdrop, it was tempting last week to conclude that as relations with the Soviet Union deteriorated, the Ad- ministration was playing its China card, cozying up to the world's most...
Robert Emmet Sherwood's feet fill size 13 shoes. He is author of The Road to Rome, highly successful comedy...
Today this sort of thinking seems almost as remote in the church as the sale of indulgences-and this is perhaps the strongest single measure of the council's achievements. The essentials of Catholic dogma stand, of course, as does Rome's claim of universality. What has changed drastically is atmosphere and attitudes. "Before, the church looked like an immense and immovable colossus, the city set on a hill, the stable bulwark against the revolutionary change," says the English Benedictine abbot, Dom Christopher Butler. "Now it has become a people on the march-or at least a people...
...five minutes before noon on the fatal day, with German troops actually in motion toward the Czech border which they were to cross at 2 p.m., Il Duce in Rome rang up Chancellor Hitler at Berlin and they talked for 45 minutes. The Führer had received that morning a second appeal for peace from President Roosevelt...
...central tenet of Christianity that sinful humans must be reconciled ("justified") with a righteous God to be saved. In traditional Catholic doctrine, the reception of the sacraments and the performance of good works can assist the process of salvation. Martin Luther, the German priest who broke with Rome and initiated the Reformation when he nailed his theses to a church door in Wittenberg, argued that people were saved by God's grace through faith alone. He cited St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans 5: 1: "Since we are justified by faith, we have peace with...