Word: christendom
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Down the Rue de la Grotte one morning last week marched eight little boys, hand in hand, wide-eyed and solemn. They were leading the greatest procession ever held at Lourdes, one of Christendom's most famed places of pilgrimage...
...outward calm during such incidents always puzzled Stanislaus, though he later realized one of its causes: their mother had become a symbol to the great symbol-maker of "the Irishwoman, the accomplice of the Irish Catholic Church, which [James] called the scullery-maid of Christendom." Stanislaus laces his book with anticlerical gibes; the brothers' joint rejection of the Catholic faith culminated in a scene at their dying mother's bedside in which Jim and Stanislaus refused to kneel and pray for her-an episode that Joyce later used in Ulysses as the source of Stephen Dedalus' "agenbite...
...Thomas Aquinas worked out "an amazing rationalization of Christian dogmas in which he convinced the scholars of Christendom that philosophy and science are not dangerous if they are not taken too seriously, and that Christian theology is based solely on the superior truths of revelation, which must be accepted in blind faith...
...welcome back their revered altar, 6,000 devout Poles thronged the 13th century Roman Catholic church and the small square outside one day in August while a solemn Mass of thanksgiving was offered. And for good reason. Cracow's altar is not only the largest Gothic altar in Christendom, but the greatest masterpiece carved by Veit Stoss, the German sculptor who. along with his younger contemporaries Mathias Grunewald, Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach. brought the art of the Middle Ages to its great and final climax...
...describes himself as a humanist) is a tolerant man who enjoys riding above the battle. With gently malicious humor, he quotes Catholic historians when he has something anti-Catholic to say, Protestant historians when he is anti-Protestant. To Durant, the men who tried to heal the wounds of Christendom, rather than the zealots on either side, are the "good" men of the day; but he believes that "our sympathy can go to all the combatants." Concludes Durant: "A religion is at its best when it must live with competition; it tends to intolerance when and where it is unchallenged...