Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italy has few more appealing public figures than Don Luigi Sturzo, the white-haired priest who founded the Christian Democratic Party, and Giorgio La Pira, the bustling little mayor of Florence. Both are ardent Roman Catholics who believe in infusing militant Christian principle into politics. Both are men of compassion and understanding. Both believe in putting into practice the words of the Gospels. But they emphatically disagree on one vital point: the role of the state in human affairs...
...state taking over the nation's financial system entirely, thus abolishing that one-fourth of the productive system of Italy that is still in private hands. This would mean that Italy would have complete state socialism . . . First, let's get this straight. La Pira, a good Christian, wants no God but the true God. He thinks, as I do, that the state is a means, not an end or the end ... He has come to the conclusion, by his steady contact with the poor man, that the state can assure each citizen a minimum living wage by taking...
...letter to Bishop S.K. Mondol, president of the Christian Council of India and Pakistan, India's Prime Minister Nehru spelled out his stand on foreign Christian missionaries. They are not, he said, "considered by us from the point of view of Christianity but [as] foreigners coming to India . . . Any unrestricted entry of foreigners creates political problems which may give us trouble in the future...
...After sharp debate, the 94th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern) voted 236 to 169 to condemn racial segregation as out of harmony with Christian theology and ethics...
...honor of the most Holy Trinity and for the exaltation of the Catholic faith and for the increase of the Christian religion, through the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul and through our own authority ... we decree and define as saint the Blessed Pius X and order his name to be written in the books of saints...