Word: christianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rallies in support of the bishop. The Vatican radio declared that "the church is being denied liberty in the exercise of its sovereign powers." In the Chamber of Deputies, a debate on a Communist-sponsored bill to curb "clerical interference in political affairs" ended in fisticuffs between the Christian Democrats and their Communist hecklers...
...Ralph W. Stutzman, 29, who came to Unitarianism from the Evangelical-United Brethren Church and served as assistant to All Souls' late, famed Pastor A. Powell Davies, rejected for himself even the loose definition of Christian as one who tries to follow the teachings of Jesus. "Which Jesus should I follow-the one who said 'Turn the other cheek. Love your enemies.' or the one who said 'Do not think that I have come to bring peace, but a sword...
Unitarians have "come out of" a Christian tradition, Stutzman admitted, "but now I think it is time for Unitarians to face the fact that we have come out ... If civilization lasts another ten years, the world is going to need a denomination like Unitarianism in the midst of the Christian western world. As the major religions of the world begin really to rub shoulders, men of foreign countries are going to find Christianity to have an obnoxious air of superiority...
...breaking of bread at Emmaus (Luke 24:30, 35), by eating a piece of broiled fish in Jerusalem (Luke 24:42), and by cooking breakfast for Peter and his friends (John 21:9-12). Such scriptural sources and sauces have been tapped for a brand-new manual of Christian cookery, The Bible Cookbook (Bethany Press; $3.95). Author Marian Maeve O'Brien, food editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, teaches Sunday-school at Grace Episcopal Church in suburban Kirkwood, and her Biblical studies have well served her culinary know...
...diocese in the U.S. (some 2,000,000 members), Tennessee-born Cardinal Stritch is known for devotion to charity, openness to experiment. His 18-year administration saw the establishment of the first U.S. chapter of the secular order Opus Dei (TIME, March 18, 1957) also the launching of the Christian Family Movement and the first vigorous church action to help Puerto Ricans in the U.S His organizing ability and scholar's mine (plus excellent Italian) equip him wel as the first American ever admitted to the Italian-dominated Curia-powerhous of the Vatican...