Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appeared to young Joseph Smith and told him where to find the gold plates on which was written, in cryptic characters, the Book of Mormon. The boy went and found the plates, and translated them. Thus, in the year 1830, in Fayette, N.Y., he founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, long hated and reviled by Gentiles because it hallowed the custom of taking several wives...
...Removal of the Cross of Christ from all churches, cathedrals and chapels. It will be replaced by the swastika as the "only unconquerable symbol of Germany...
...Constitution of the U.S. that it could and did operate as an open-end instrument, bringing more territory and more peoples into federal union. That conception should not now be renounced. . . . All national groups [tend] to attribute self-righteousness to [their present] mood. This tendency, which violates Christ's precepts, creates much ill-will and is itself a major contributing cause...
...America the Rev. John LaFarge, SJ described Nazi treatment of Catholic Slovenia as "a hell deliberately planned by Adolf Hitler, out of his diabolical hatred for Christ and His Church." Local priests are being replaced by Germans, and in one diocese 65% of the priests have already been arrested...
...friars were in every part of the world, from Persia to England, from Abyssinia to Canada. In the midst of his wearisome and questionable political activities, the thought that he was helping to spread the gospel of Christ must often have been a source of strength and consolation. True, his enemies in Spain and Austria and at the Roman Curia accused him of using his missionaries as French agents and anti-Habsburg fifth columnists. And, alas, the charge was not entirely baseless...