Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flower of a free election. Though incumbent Chancellor Konrad Adenauer still seemed a shoo-in in a generally stodgy campaign (TIME, Sept. 2), the most significant fact about it was that the country seems directly and unmistakably headed for a two-party system. The two parties: Adenauer's Christian Democrats and the Socialists of Erich Ollenhauer...
...indecent undress" of foreign tourists, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, 76-year-old Roman Catholic Cardinal Patriarch of Venice, last month advised visiting priests and nuns to stay away from Venice in the summer. "It is," said the cardinal in a circular letter, "an open outrage against natural and Christian morals to wear in the public streets scanty clothing barely tolerable at beaches." In Rome the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano approvingly reprinted Roncalli's letter and added its own objections to foreign tourists who "wear in our cities clothing fit only for their own bedrooms or bathrooms." The weather...
Metropolitan Opera Bass Jerome Hines heads a Christian Fellowship group of entertainers organized during the crusade. Several Bible study groups were also formed as a result of Graham's work. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney has gathered about a dozen fellow socialites who meet once a week "in an effort to achieve a broader understanding of the Bible." Says Mrs. Whitney: "I think the after effects of this crusade will be extraordinary-the beginning of a reawakening...
...Unionistic Congress of the Roman Catholic Church at St. Procopius Abbey in Lisle. Ill., 125 delegates discussed hopes for the return of all Christians to the Roman Catholic fold-especially those who "left the church as a result of the Eastern schism of 1054." i.e., the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches. In preparation for the day when Roman Catholicism may once again be free to teach and preach in Russia, monks are in training in the Catholic Eastern Rite at Holy Trinity Priory near Pittsburgh, as well as at Fordham and in Rome. The Russian Orthodox Church would have been...
...Stallknecht canvases that toured the West were also filled with works of religious feeling, works interspersed with somber pictures of Chatham, its seafaring people and their tribulations. Straight-forward and often powerful, her art conveys almost as much bitterness and darkness as it does sweetness and light, with a Christian theme to give some light to its darkest corners...