Word: ans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One common denominator is a simplicity forced by economy, since, as the FORUM points out, "the church of the future . . . will have to be regarded as expendable. New York is currently witnessing the impact of present-day economy on the traditional concept of the church: the dramatic demolition of the...
Bare but Not Barren. Like the great churches of the past, the new buildings designed by such brilliant moderns as Wright, the Saarinens, Antonin Raymond and Pietro Belluschi are "functional" in that they use the latest structural materials and techniques in such a way as to emphasize rather than conceal...
In Boston, Roman Catholic Archbishop Richard J. Gushing also saw a menace-in Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State, an organization which Bishop Oxnam helped found two years ago (TIME, Jan. 19, 1948).
Old Story. To the Roman Catholic Church this was an old story. St. Francis of Assisi was the first known Stigmatist,* and there have been many subsequent cases (Dr. A. Imbert-Gourbeyre in his La Stigmatisation, 1894, collected the records of 321). Modern physicians have examined enough of them, e.g...
At the monastery of San Giovanni Rotondo, near Foggia in southeast Italy, 62-year-old Padre Pio now rises at 2 each morning, prays for three hours and begins Mass at 5:30. Though Mass is normally a matter of some 30 minutes, he may take an hour and a...