Word: christianly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knelt before a cross, and the good grey Archbishop of Paris, Jean Cardinal Verdier, said to them: "You have sworn to effect that miracle upon which in our timidity we had no longer counted." The 75,000 were Jocists, members of JOC (Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne-Christian Working Youth), celebrating the tenth anniversary of the most vigorous youth movement outside Europe's dictator nations...
Chinese-speaking Christian missionary doctors are among the few Western observers in really close touch with China's people, and in Manhattan arrived last week Dr. Walter H. Judd. fresh from work in Japanese-conquered territory, and Dr. Robert McClure who has been Director of the International Red Cross in Central China. They agreed that Japan "does not have the ghost of a chance to win the war," since what they have seen convinces them that the Japanese Army of Occupation, sniped at and harassed day & night by Chinese guerrillas, is "slowly bleeding to death." As an example...
...Catholique in Paris. Maritain is a follower of the great medieval doctor of the Church, St. Thomas Aquinas. In Neo-Thomism, based upon the monumental Summae of St. Thomas, Maritain sees the unique cure for modern ills. Seeking, like Karl Barth, to rescue civilization from humanism and revive pure Christianity, Neo-Thomism does not "annihilate man before God" (as Barthianism does) but aims with an "integral" attitude to preserve man's dignity, incorporate the valuable elements of humanistic culture in a new Christian order. So far as the Church is concerned (and Maritain is at present in bad odor...
...popular among his boys, whom he calls "Ol Bill" or "Ol Joseph." Long abandoned is the old school rule that "no student .shall sing any Negro or low song," but such practices as smoking and drinking are strictly regulated. Prime aim of the school is to turn out "Christian gentlemen." Its honor system is scrupulously enforced. The boys themselves once stoned from the grounds a student caught stealing...
...certain hands would be like swallowing a spider." Author Noyes did aim, however, to prove by Voltaire's own statements that he was by no means the cynical atheist he is commonly considered; that he was, in fact, a Deist without quite enough insight to become a full Christian. Voltaire, thought its author, presented an "overwhelming" case for Christianity. The Holy Office, when it read the book last spring, thought otherwise. Its secretary, Donatus Cardinal Sbarretti, wrote Arthur Cardinal Kinsley, Archbishop of Westminster, that the Holy Office decreed...