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Francis of Assisi, simplest and kindliest of saints, lived in an age when Christendom sent army after army to wrest the Holy Land from the infidel. Burning to convert, rather than slaughter, the paynim, St. Francis took Palestine as a province of his order, before he or his followers ever laid eyes on it. When he did arrive there in 1219, the little saint settled Franciscans in some of the Holy Land's holy places. In 1333, by treaty with the Sultan, and with papal approval, Franciscans were awarded permanent "Custody of the Holy Land"-i.e., care...
Thus St. Luke and St. Matthew reported the most important event of their time-to Christians, the most important event in the world since its creation. This week Christendom marks the anniversary of Christ's Nativity. Sober Christians, celebrating the feast in a world of fears, troubles and confusions, could well wonder whether, in the 1,943 years* since their Saviour's birth, Christendom had ever been so sorely beset...
Time of Waiting. Wise men at Christmas 1938, seeking Him that was born King of the Jews, could not have found Him in the chancelleries of Europe, nor on the battlefields that scarred the map of Christendom, nor in the hearts of the masters of the world-even of those who called themselves men of good will...
...Christendom has grown from a compact 500,000 souls in the 1st Century to a sprawling 682,400,000 today, of whom almost half (331,500,000) are Roman Catholics. In the world's population (nearly two billion) Christians are far outnumbered by non-Christians: Confucianists and Taoists (350,600,000), Hindus (230,000,000), Mohammedans (209,000,000), Buddhists (150,180,000). In teeming China, Christians are less than 1% of the population, in India about 2%, in Japan less than...
...Council last week announced receipt of a notable gift: Christendom, an able theological quarterly, circulation 2,500, handed over debt-free by its publishers (Willett, Clark & Co.) to become the U.S. organ of the World Council of Churches...