Word: christi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loyalty to their faith, a vast crowd of Roman Catholics gathered in Buenos Aires last week and victoriously defied Strongman Juan Perón. While a special Corpus Christi procession was held inside the packed cathedral on the Plaza de Mayo, 100,000 Catholics knelt outside under the afternoon sky. After the ceremonies, the crowd formed into a broad river and flowed, slowly and silently at first, toward the federal Congress building...
Marlowe was born in the same year as Shakespeare (1564). He was the son of a Canterbury shoemaker, but records show that he was a brilliant student. He won a scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Young Marlowe, as everyone agrees, translated Ovid, wrote poems and plays (Hero and Leander, Tamburlaine, Dr. Faustus, Edward II, The Jew of Malta). Records indicate that he was a homosexual and an outspoken atheist, also suggest that he was a secret agent of Queen Elizabeth's government. In 1593, a long charge of atheistic crimes was drawn up against Marlowe, but before...
...Jesuit priests on the faculty of St. Louis University sat down one summer day in 1950 and composed an unprecedented letter to the Vatican. "Reverende Pater, pax Christi," they wrote in their best Latin to the prefect of the library. Then they asked permission to carry out as ambitious a project as their university had ever undertaken. They wanted to microfilm the Vatican Library and bring it back to St. Louis. Neither Historian Lowrie Daly nor Librarian Joseph Donnelly knew "whether the project was possible, or even whether the Vatican would consider it. But we thought it was worth...
Last week Peron trimmed five religious feast days-Epiphany, Corpus Christi, Assumption, All Saints, Immaculate Conception-from the list of national holidays.*The following day Cardinal Copello visited Peron, and rumors flew about that the two leaders had arranged a peace. But Peron & Co. soon punctured that wishful thought. The Ministry of Education abruptly accused Catholic schools of defrauding the government of $300,000 by padding payrolls. Sneered the Peronista newspaper Democracia: "These are the would-be monopolists of morality...
...Italy as a tourist, and his application for a permanent residence permit would have to wait. Tourist Paden lost patience and put up a sign on his building in the Via Achille Papa, in the shadow of the Vatican. The sign, in letters ten inches high, read CHIESA DI CHRISTI (Church of Christ...