Word: traditionalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...otherwise it was a strategic victory for stand patters, who feared that any participation by the bishops would weaken the power of the College of Cardinals and the Vatican Curia. Another papal move: the assistants who previously accompanied the cardinals into the conclave will henceforth be excluded. However traditionalist, the Pope's decree struck one modern note. Two technicians must check the conclave quarters for "instruments of whatsoever kind for recording, reproduction or transmission of voices and images." In other words, no bugs...
...language seemed innocuous enough: "Equality of rights under law shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex." But in recent months, ad hoc groups of traditionalist women sprang up in New York and New Jersey to denounce the proposed state equal rights amendments as antimarriage, anti-family and likely to lead to unisex toilets. Pamphlets emblazoned with the inevitable picture of the gaping shark from Jaws warned that equal rights for women could mean the "ruination of America," and lead to homosexual marriages, loss of widows' benefits and the mass drafting of women into the U.S. armed...
...Bishops had taken against any of its members since 1966, when it assailed the late Bishop James A. Pike of California for "irresponsible" doctrinal statements. In the Portland discussions, some prelates fumed about the "total lawlessness" of their three colleagues. Retired Bishop William Moody of Lexington, Ky., a traditionalist, remarked that if any more women receive illegal ordinations, he would seek permission to bestow holy orders on Secretariat. "We already have parts of the horse," he allowed. "Why not the whole thing?" Before the vote, one of the two rebel prelates present, retired Bishop Edward Welles, 68, of west Missouri...
There is none of M*A*S*Hs can-the-caduceus flippancy about Rogers-as-businessman. His investment philosophy, say his clients, is strictly "traditionalist." So is Rogers. Born William Wayne McMillan Rogers III, the son of a wealthy lawyer in Birmingham, Ala., Rogers in his youth was suitably Southern-comfortable: "I drank beer, chased girls and drove fast cars." Sent to a boarding school for "Southern incorrigibles" in Bell Buckle, Tenn., Rogers finally buckled down and eventually graduated from Princeton with honors...
Welsh, a solid traditionalist from Pinladelpina, assigned an old-guard priest, Father John P. Hannan, 52, to take over Good Shepherd. After refusing at first to meet with the radicalized parish council, Hannan finally turned out for a meeting that drew 400 onlookers and occasioned catcalls, boos and some tears...