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Word: altars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, a group of young Roman Catholics anticipated the cardinal's remarks with a more direct protest against toleration. A gang of well-dressed young men burst into the tiny, secluded Protestant chapel of St. Basil, struck Pastor Santos Martin Molin in the face, poured gasoline over the altar and tried to set the church afire. Said a Spanish government spokesman: "A negligible, isolated incident." In Madrid, a Protestant pastor brandished a pamphlet published by a Catholic organization, in which Protestants were denounced as "libertines, women of easy virtue and traitors to their country." "This sort of propaganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Toleration in Seville | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

Usually the witchmaster who presides over the ceremony is a woman and the altar boys are homosexuals but these details would not have been included, the spokesman assured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chicago Students Protest Suppression of Black Mass | 2/13/1952 | See Source »

...also denied that the students were planning to hold the Mass at midnight in the University chapel, "with someone rising from a coffin in the transept and deflorating a virgin on the altar as the conclusion of the Mass. There is no authority for this in any of the literature on the Mass, and it seems impractible. On the contrary, our ceremony would have been quite conservative and restrained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chicago Students Protest Suppression of Black Mass | 2/13/1952 | See Source »

...loves him enough to keep him in style and stake him to a nightclub, but who coolly leaves him before he can leave her, is vividly hardboiled. For once, musicomedy plays with people rather than paper dolls, and shows them left in the lurch rather than led to the altar. (Equally raffish on the surface, Guys and Dolls is far more romantic underneath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Musical in Manhattan | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...always wanted to follow in his father's steps. "I've never wanted to be anything but a priest," he says. "I've known that ever since I've known anything. At seven I began as an acolyte, a server at the altar, and I've been there ever since." After Columbia College and General Theological Seminary, he served churches in Chicago and Pittsburgh, then went back to St. Philip's as his father's curate in 1923. He became rector when his father retired 18 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Harlem's St. Philip's | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

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