Word: christe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over the west doorway-a task that took him nine months. He also enjoyed a privilege few craftsmen have experienced since the Middle Ages. He was present to see his monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, preside over the dedication of Liverpool's Cathedral Church of Christ, 74 years after it was begun...
Delegates representing the Metro Boston Association of the United Church of Christ voted yesterday to endorse the nation-wide boycott of Nestle Corporation products by a margin...
While working at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Quebedeaux said the "cooperation between the Campus Crusade, a conservative group, and the United Campus Ministry, a more liberal organization, really blew people's minds. Christ demanded that we all be one. Why? So that we all may believe and we showed that can work...
Wojtyla wrote last year that Jesus Christ is "a reproach to the affluent consumer society ... The great poverty of people, especially in the Third World ?hunger, economic exploitation, colonialism?all these signify an opposition to Christ by the powerful." Advocates of the Marxist-influenced "liberation theology" in Latin America thus hope that the Pope will be sympathetic to their program. But knowledgeable observers in Rome expect the opposite. Asked on West German TV last year whether Marxism could be reconciled with Christianity, Wojtyla replied bluntly: "This is a curious question. One cannot be a Christian and a materialist...
...Roman Catholics regard as the first Pope was also, of course, the first non-Italian Pope: Simon Peter, the "rock" on whom Jesus Christ said he would build his church. For most of St. Peter's 263 successors, however, it was not the universal nature of the church but the strident demands of local Roman politics, with its aristocratic, warring families, that determined their selection. No fewer than 205 of them were Italians. The 58 exceptions were 15 Greeks, 15 Frenchmen, six Germans, six Syrians, three North Africans, three Spaniards, two Dalmatians, two Goths, a Thracian, an Englishman...