Word: christendom
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...controversial subjects that divide Christendom, one of the most divisive is church unity. Two months ago, John D. Rockefeller Jr. made a well-intentioned plea for church unity (TIME, Feb. 12). Last week, as it must to all such pleas, came a stern rebuke. "Shocking," said Long Island's Anglo-Catholic (high church) Protestant Episcopal Bishop James P. De Wolfe, ". . . and contrary to the doctrine of the Church...
...most celebrated Gothic monument in Christendom had survived four years of German conquest and, last week, the even greater dangers of liberation. After six German snipers had been driven from its north tower, Chartres Cathedral was found to be almost untouched...
...woven the story of how Francis, by his fabulous simplicity, got what he wanted both from the Pope in Rome and the infidel Sultan of Egypt, of how a tough and worldly French knight became King of Jerusalem against his will, of how thousands of the children of Christendom strangely vanished from their homes forever (on the Children's Crusade), of how a Cardinal fought a war in Egypt and because of his obstinacy lost instead of winning back the Holy Land...
...offices, Mr. Edwards sometimes felt an overwhelming need for a few minutes of complete withdrawal from the world. He took to dropping in at downtown churches. For Mr. Edwards, who in an age of religious myopia can see beyond his own nose, saw that the world in general, and Christendom in particular, had reached one of history's great divides. He concluded that the problems of our time are so great that they can never be solved by human minds alone...
...spring this trap, so cunningly prepared by the arch-criminals of our times, we shall destroy not only the city of the Popes and capital of Christendom . . . but destroy our own prestige and thereby make a decent peace almost impossible. Countless millions of people in Europe and in South America would turn resolutely from the nation which . . . dared to raze the beloved shrines of the Christian centuries...