Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus ended a luncheon in Peoria last week that made American church history. For the first time ever, a non-Catholic delegation of religious leaders was officially entertained and received at a national Catholic conference. The occasion was the 20th annual convention of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference (TIME...
...convention did this week. It not only snubbed Soviet trade unionism but sowed new seeds of suspicion between two allies that are on the verge of undertaking the most gigantic military operations in history. An American labor movement that clings tenaciously to 19th century unionism and coyly condones 20th century labor gangsterism, making hostages out of thousands of unwary small business men, and virtual economic prisoners of hundreds of thousands of its won trapped members cannot mortally attack dictatorialism in other quarters. The paradox of such an attack and refusal to cooperate with Soviet labor would only be another...
Bernanos is not, like England's prodigious William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, a proponent of social reform. Nor is he, like his distinguished friend, Jacques Maritain, a scholastic philosopher. What Bernanos has done is to prove again, for the 20th Century, the psychological power of religious insight. In so doing he offers a profound challenge to free men in terms that most of them are beginning to understand...
...20th-century Quixote? Georges Bernanos' Rio publisher says of him, "He is alone, this man." Last year, in North America, Jacques Maritain was writing: "Crushed by the woes of Apocalypse, the French see no prophet rising from their people to tell the true horror of what has happened and to reawaken the spirit in its depths." At that time Bernanos, self-exiled to Brazil since 1938, was filling five-cent notebooks with his sermons on the true horror, written with an eloquence worthy of the greatest writers of France...
...little eloquent evangelist, who produced big eloquent structures, Architect Cram lived scarcely more than bodily in the 20th Century. His intense spiritual life was in "the 13th, greatest of centuries," when the faith of a united Christendom bloomed in stone cathedrals from the hard soil of feudal Europe. More than any other one person Cram was responsible for the Gothic revival in U.S. architecture...