Word: christ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first speeches were predictable enough. Christian Democrat Premier Alcide de Gasperi spoke firmly, if not very eloquently, for the Lateran reaffirmation his party wanted: Christ's divinity was "the crucial question ... of our positivist age. . . ." Then he descended to pragmatism with an arithmetical statement that Togliatti later turned into a trap. Out of 45,526,750 Italians, said De Gasperi, "45,349,221 are Catholics...
...wife: "My dear, I must tell you what the Vicar said about him. ... I asked him to come and see the baby here before the christening because I thought he might not like it about the color. . .. And he said, [the baby] was . .. 'about the color of Jesus Christ.' My dear, wasn't that a terrible thing to say? He's ever such a queer man ... I shouldn't think he'd ever get to be a bishop...
...Jesus Christ is a real political opponent of National Socialism," he declared, "because He is living today. It was a fatal error on the part of Hitler that he did not realize that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead...
...that broadcast, the Monsignor calmly divided the world of men into two opposing, irreconcilable sections . . . the believers, the camp of Christ, the servants of God; on the other side, the unbelievers, the camp of antiChrist, the servants of Satan...
Presbyterian theologians "don't believe in the Genesis story any more. They claim that the virgin birth of Christ is a myth, also the bodily resurrection of Christ. The Church, as a result, has lost its punch...