Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blasphemous one man's opinion. There would certainly be an uproar if non-Catholics protested to Bishop Sheen's being on TV just because he reaches into the homes of thousands of Protestants. This was certainly a non-Christian attitude on the Rev. John E. Kelly's part, and possibly it is for this reason that so many "fairly well instructed Catholics may be 'deceived'"-or as I would say "converted...
Ironically, the ultimate causes of Christian Democrat Segni's downfall were de-stalinization and Russian brutality in Hungary. As the strength of the Italian Communist Party waned under these blows, so did the only real bond between the four center parties-the obvious need for "democratic solidarity" against Communism. Two months ago, convinced that the time had come to look out for its own interests in next year's general election, the tiny Republican Party withdrew its support from the government. The Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat, who controls a pivotal 19 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, found...
...really broken with Moscow, managed to resist the pressure until last week. Then, seizing on the behind-scenes maneuvers of Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi (who not long ago outraged the Segni Cabinet by proposing to send a neutralist letter to Ike), Saragat suddenly charged that within the Christian Democratic Party itself there were forces guilty of "silent hostility" to Segni's pro-Western foreign policy. "For 22 months," intoned Saragat righteously, "we Social Democrats have kept the faith. Now we must withdraw." Left with only 275 out of 587 Deputies, Segni had little choice but to resign...
True to his word, devout little Giorgio La Pira has kept Florence on the verge of municipal bankruptcy ever since and, in the process, made himself the idol of the Florentine masses. A year ago, largely on the strength of La Pira's public works, his Christian Democratic ticket won the biggest municipal vote (101,000) in Florence's history. But, unhappily for La Pira, the newly adopted proportional representation left the Christian Democrats with only 25 out of 60 seats on the municipal council. La Pira found himself obliged to strike up an unwritten alliance with...
Poll taxes, over-severe literacy tests for voters and concealment of information about times and places of registration were branded "political demagoguery in its worst form." Churchgoers were reminded that "the Christian faith has never countenanced racial discrimination," and that "the supreme law of the land requires that it no longer be practiced in the public-school system. Therefore every member of the assembly is urged to work in his own community for an honest and durable adjustment...