Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the big Portone di Bronzo at the right of St. Peter's and up the broad staircase to the audience chambers on the second floor trooped bobby-soxers and Brahmins, camera-slung tourists, oilmen and stenographers and schoolteachers. One need be neither Catholic nor Christian to be received, and the white-robed Holy Father walked among them all, making brief small talk in six languages, handing out holy medals, even exchanging his white silk skull cap with some visitor who had brought one for the purpose. The New York Times's late Anne O'Hare McCormick...
...three shepherd children of Fatima, Portugal, in 1917). But whatever future learned tribunals may decide about his saintliness, millions who saw him or heard his words will require no visions, no miracles beyond the fact that Pius XII was able to make a tormented world feel "the attraction of Christian goodness...
...Center: "Women are creation's masterpiece . . . The concept of the woman of the shipyards, of the mines, of heavy labor as it is exalted and practiced by some countries in the name of progress is anything but a modern concept. It is a sad return toward epochs that Christian civilization buried long...
...separation between religion and life, between the supernatural and the natural, between the church and the world, as though they had no relation to each other, as though the rights of God were not valid within the whole realm of human and social life, this is manifestly un-Christian...
...something that he cherished. The something was coffee. He has never tasted it since. It was at this time, too-and Stagg remembers the date: May 23, 1877 -that this son of a devout Presbyterian family formally joined the church and decided to be a minister. "I became a Christian, and that made all the difference to me." From that moment he resolved to face life on his own resources, physical and financial as well as spiritual...