Word: christe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bergen Evening Record came to grief for running, in its "Voice of the People Forum," a letter attacking Jesus Christ, suggesting that he was the illegitimate son of Mary and a Roman soldier. The other publications, America thought, misled their readers on the Spanish war (three citations), birth control, ecclesiastical control in the Middle Ages, Fascism in Quebec, Catholic views on Mexico, the Church's oldtime attitude toward taking baths...
...Communist, 30-year-old Tim O'Brien. Most C. U. U. members are old, and ineligible for relief because they are transients. The C. U. U.'s program, like that of the Catholic Worker, is intended to comply with papal teachings, "to bring all men back to Christ." Specifically, it advocates: a back-to-the-land movement; worker-ownership and "equitable distribution of the fruits of man's labor"; public ownership of public utilities; parish cooperatives, co-operative hostels and workshops for the unemployed...
...concluded with a statement that the Easter Gospel proclaims Christ still alive among us today...
Expanding on this text he demonstrated that it was with Christ as a living, not an historical figure, that we are primarily concerned with today. "Only as we seek Christ alive today does he become our all-significant contemporary," he said...
Coffin also made clear that only those with an interest in Christianity could gain any great value from it. "It is the unique prerogative of Christ to open for us the door to eternal life," were his words on the point...