Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interpretation of Scripture However, many of us doubt that the right of interpretation of Scripture includes the right to deny . . . basic doctrines such as the deity of Christ . . . While a man has the right to deny any part of the Bible, I question his right to call himself a Christian minister while doing...
Italian Flirtation. In Italy, distensione meant a continuing flirtation with the notion of an "opening to the left"?an alliance between Christian Democratic center parties and the fellow-traveling Nenni Socialists, who still refuse to break their "unity of action" pact with the Communists. The Reds, oozing good-fellowship, as much as implied that "the spirit of Geneva" required all parties to get together. Italy's 2,000,000 unemployed are still the Communists' best asset, but according to a series of tables euphemistically described as a "plan" by Budget Minister Ezio Vanoni, jobs could be found for them...
Last week this willingness to sacrifice other people's property to his own Christian impulses had got controversial Mayor La Pira, the man who wrested Florence from Communist control for the Christian Democrats four years ago, into his deepest trouble...
...Convent of San Marco, that every man in Florence is entitled to a roof over his head-no matter what the law says. When, in late 1952, yielding to landlords' pleas, the national government began to permit evic-ions from rent-controlled apartments, La Pira took action. "A Christian society is a fraternal society," he proclaimed, "and when even one man is excluded, when even one man lacks bread or a roof, society ceases to be fraternal...
...Negro wrong, is responsible for much of his inferior status in society. But even though restrictions are placed upon the Negro, it profits no one to retaliate in kind. Two wrongs make nobody right. Negroes should be proud that there are members of their race who abide by the Christian principle of doing unto others as they would that others should do unto them...