Word: christian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stance & Circumstances. The new man in these deliberations, U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), won admiration from his colleagues in gaining assent to this largely U.S. package. He placed himself well over toward the British position in favor of serious negotiations with the Russians. But he also made a significant concession to the French. He had wanted to make public the Western proposal May 10, the day before the meeting with the Russians began. But the French argued that since the Russians started all the fuss by threatening Berlin, they should be required to submit a plan...
Last week Kent's mission ("to produce soundly educated Christian citizens") was expanded in a way that would almost surely have left Father Sill blinking. On a bucolic, 600-acre farm a mere five miles and one mountain away from the Kent campus, groundbreaking ceremonies were held for a new girls' annex. By autumn of 1960, the first 100 girls (aged 14 to 15) will join Kent's 292 boys...
Close to 1,000,000 Coptic Christians of Egypt, who believe themselves to be the world's oldest Christian sect, celebrated the election of a new pope last week. The man who will also be looked to for guidance by Coptic leaders in Ethiopia, the Sudan and Libya was chosen, according to ancient custom, by lot. In Cairo's Cathedral of St. Mark, a seven-year-old boy approached an envelope lying on the altar. Amid prayers, he opened the envelope and drew from it one of three slips, each bearing the name of a candidate...
Victor Hugo's novel went on the Index in 1864 under pressure from Napoleon III, who hoped to curtail the popularity of a book in which revolutionaries were honest and noble. Said one Vatican spokesman: "It occurred to us that, with doctrinally objectionable passages annotated, this essentially Christian book might do some good." The annotations appear in the form of footnotes. Thus Hugo, in chapter four, describes the bishop's doctrine: "Err, yield to temptation, sin, but be just!" Says a footnote: "A very easy and peaceable moral thesis which had nothing in common with Catholic doctrine...
...writing to a friend on the riddle of cruelty: "Joy and beauty have many different faces, but brutality and hatred have but few. I have come to the extremity of knowing beyond all doubt that there is no other way for me to survive this period except the hard Christian way of finding the finer points in my associates and loving th.jm for those characteristics...