Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointed to St. Patrick's see, got his red hat in 1929. A sharp-tongued Irishman who never minces his words, the Cardinal has positive dislikes-among them, Protestantism ("the Protestant Church here and elsewhere is no part of the Church which Christ founded") and modern civilization (which "increases the opportunity...
...Times. The gist: "There is surely enough for the church to do within its own accepted field." One defender of the Archbishop popped up with a retort from the late G. A. ("Woodbine Willie") Studdert-Kennedy, best-loved British padre of World War I: "Nobody worries about Christ so long as He can be kept shut up in churches . . . but there is always trouble...
...East Liberty Presbyterian Church, the great dining hall at Notre Dame University. Called in at the time the original designer of St. John's, Architect Christopher Grant La Farge, stepped out, Cram scrapped La Farge's Romanesque-Byzantine plans, redesigned the cathedral in Gothic. Manhattan's Christ Church (Methodist) he made Byzantine, because that effete style struck him as appropriate to its location -wealthy, hoity-toity Park Avenue...
...gloomy statues are allowed in The Happy Cemetery-and the ban extends to representations of Christ on the cross. The Builder is impatient with portrayals of The Master as "a suffering being, of joyless visage." He is still hunting a marble Christ "who really smiles." Pursuing his ideal, Promoter Eaton once inspected 998 Christs of all sizes in Italy. None of them smiled...
Pietro seldom read the papers. As a friend of his observed, they never printed news worth reading, such as the birth of Christ. He learned to embrace suffering, extirpating only ("as if they were bad teeth") the "sufferings that are impure, caused by wounded vanity and frustrated ambition." He learned, above all, "rejection of our present social order and attachment to the poor," for among the poor-cruel, stupid or treacherous though some were-he found "the last remains of pride, dignity and common sense, the last reserves that our race may hope to draw...