Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outlay. Agrarians and Conservatives, who are most opposed to the idea, picked up at least 14 seats, fj In Belgium the country was almost evenly divided too, but the Socialist-Liberal coalition that has ruled Belgium through uneventful prosperity for four years was put out of office. The Social Christians (largely Roman Catholics) captured a majority of the Senate but fell short in the House, and may not be able to put together a majority, though King Baudouin asked Social Christian August De Schryver, 60, to make a sounding. Probable result: Belgium will struggle along until everybody goes home from...
Hell is a problem for theologians as well as sinners; to reconcile the worm and the fire with the Christian concept of a loving and forgiving God has been a perennial difficulty. In the Roman Catholic quarterly, Thought, Fordham University's Assistant Professor Robert W. Gleason, S.J., investigates Satan's kingdom in the light of modern thought. Says Theologian Gleason: "A combination of sentimentality, secular humanism and determinism have produced their own bitter fruit ... It is no longer generally believed, to put the matter bluntly, that man is capable of choices that could bring him to eternal death...
...commission report, "since most Jews are such
in name only, that in a spirit of true repentance for our own
mistreatment of the Jew we should take seriously our responsibility for
winning them to Christ, and . . . should be prepared to surround the
converted Jew with the community of Christian love."
Another plea for the healing ministry came from the annual meeting of the Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston last week. Notable agenda item: the trustees' report on the two Christian Science sanatoria in the U.S.-at Chestnut Hill, Mass. and in San Francisco. These establishments resemble hospitals except that patients go there to be healed by prayer and not by medicine. They also provide training for Christian Science nurses, who learn their techniques of prayer and care in three-year courses (regular registered nurses need only a one-year Christian Science course). Enrollments, according to the report...
...Angeles Country, experimental programs in world problems, both economic and social, were abandoned in face of criticisms from such diverse groups as the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the press, and the Gerald L. K. Smith Christian Nationalists. A trial course combining science and sociology in a New York school, for advanced students, was dropped after a single year--despite the enthusiasm of both instructors and students...