Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accompanying article, one of the signers of this blast, Chaplain Albert J. Dubois, 38, detailed the reasons for the statement: "It is a great privilege to be sent in the name of Christ to minister to men of all faiths-and of none." But when an Episcopal chaplain turns to the men who belong to his own church, "he finds less cause for joy. . . . The pathetic weakness of much of our religious education is now most glaringly apparent. . . . We have turned out too many people who are more like the Pharisee than the Publican-members of the Episcopal Church...
...Emperor Augustus, became the chief city of the Gallic tribe of Treveri. Because of its strategic location, Diocletian made Augusta Treverorum an important provincial capital. Constantine the Great beautified it. His mother, Empress Saint Helena, presented it with the "Holy Coat" or Seamless Tunic of Christ, which remains to this day the chief treasure of Trier's 4th Century cathedral. On the other hand, Trier is also the birthplace of Karl Marx. The Nazis set up a printing establishment in his house, then Allied bombs destroyed...
...drifted to the central plains of Mexico from Asia, by way of Alaska. The tantalizing, inconclusive "evidence" that keeps cropping up in early Mexican art: what looks like Chinese jade, Oriental symbols, the swastika and a few Grecian motifs which filtered into China from Greece hundreds of years before Christ...
...Christ, truly God, gave us this . . . religion in the Catholic Church, which is the only custodian of His teachings. . . . Catholics will gladly meet with citizens of all faiths . . . under the auspices of civil authority. . . . We are anxious to promote good will; we wholeheartedly condemn bigotry in every form. . . . [But] Catholics should not participate in any public presentation with members of other faiths under the auspices of religion. The Catholic Church cannot give the impression that one religion is as good as another or that she must strive with those of other faiths for a common denominator in religion...
...battle surged to the towering, 40-ft.-thick brown walls of Intramuros, the 16th-Century inner city. An observer who watched the first shells drive home growled: "Christ, 755 just bounce off that wall." Beightler mustered h's guns. In one hour, in the greatest land barrage of the Pacific war, 10,000 shells smashed into the wall and the city just beyond. Slowly the masonry crumbled and American troops forced their...