Word: catechismic
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The tension had been rising for weeks. Among the Louisiana rice marshes and stands of sugar cane around the little (pop. 2,500) town of Erath, 125 miles west of New Orleans, groups of white folks gathered to pass along the latest rumors about the new pastor. Father Labbe was...
Had the 306 new cadets now beginning their training at the U.S. Air Force Academy gone to West Point, they would have found themselves confronted by a bewildering type of catechism. In the Hell on the Hudson, the new plebes would have had to answer questions such as: "How is...
Reader M. Valeriote [Sept. 21] sounds like a parochial school graduate who lost his faith in college when he was introduced to calipers and test tubes. If he had ever taken the trouble to consult even a third-rate manual in theology above the catechism level, he would have found...
On the big Red Square tomb, where on state occasions Russian bigwigs customarily line up in careful order like squat tenpins, state sculptors chiseled the name CTARNH (Stalin) just below Lenin's. Presses began to grind out millions of copies of the three funeral orations by Malenkov, Beria and...
More than 50 years have passed since Father Andres first came to Granada to take over his parish of gypsies. In those days they were a wild, lice-ridden lot, and their children were growing up to be exactly the same. Father Andres tried to get them to come to...