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In a quiet room of Providence's VA Hospital, bearded, longtime expatriate Author Elliot (The Last Time I Saw Paris) Paul, 67, a lifelong agnostic, now dying of heart disease, called for a priest, crossed himself with three fingers in the sign of the Trinity, and became a member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 17, 1958 | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

In 1938 he was married (in an Episcopal church, though still an agnostic); the marriage lasted two years and was ecclesiastically annulled by the then bishop of Los Angeles. At 25 Lawyer Pike became one of the youngest men ever admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pike's Peak | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

Who Is God? There is an almost antlike scurrying to repair this break in the ordered rhythms of life. Friends and relations bring the offerings of their affection and experience; widowed Mary Follet, though splintering within, turns uncomplaining to her God; her agnostic father rages as man always has against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tender Realist | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

Princeton's attitude exemplifies that of the modern agnostic liberal in today's academic community when brought face to face with a real nonconformist who has convictions and the courage to express them.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 21, 1957 | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

To progressive Catholics the catchy new booklets are a means of winning children who otherwise would all too easily drift away (said one agnostic Paris mother: "It's dynamite. If my children got hold of that, they'd all be Catholics in three months"). To conservative French Catholics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catechism Crisis | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

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