Word: christ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Says Davies (who objects to orthodox Christianity and especially the Apostles' Creed as inadequate): "The Creed goes: '. . . Born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate. . . .' The comma between those two phrases is the most important part of Christ's life. After all, the life of Christ is something more than a punctuation mark...
Most of us believe in Christ, but very few of us see Him clearly, because our knowledg is shrouded in mysticism and superstition. How many of our young people shrug off the entire subject of religion simply because they have had no opportunity for clear thinking along these lines? If we could but once separate the dogma of worship from the necessary basic understanding of the origins and growth of religion, I believe most people would begin thinking about it as a part of their own lives...
Perhaps the most spectacular gesture of conciliation was made by Russia's cynical, ductile Andrei Vishinsky, who led a five-man Soviet delegation into St. Patrick's Cathedral to attend a Solemn Pontifical Mass for the United Nations on the Feast of Christ the King...
...Established by Pope Pius XI to combat "the great modern heresy of laicism [which] refuses to recognize the rights of God and His Christ over persons and peoples and organizes the lives of individuals, families and society itself, as though God did not exist. This laicism ruins society. ... It begets jealousy between individuals, hatred between classes and rivalry between nations...
...ambassador of interracial justice and charity," Father Matthews' heart and head belong to Trinidad and Mount St. Benedict. He looks forward to his return next spring to continue working on his chief study-the cultural forms of his own people as a matrix of the Gospel of Christ...