Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think of a time when most of the human race had no contact whatsoever with the Church's teaching as a genuinely 'Catholic' age," said Jesuit Ong, "is not only parochial, but definitely scandalous. It suggests that Christ came to save not the human race but one's own family." Only Europe was Catholic in the so-called Age of Faith; today there are Catholics everywhere in the world...
...Insult. A battery of Italy's leading intellectuals, among them Authors Carlo (Christ Stopped at Eboli) Levi, Alberto (The Woman of Rome) Moravia, Ignazio (Fontamara) Silone, declared openly for Dolci. "The world of culture is on Danilo's side," said Silone. But the world of authority was not: the public prosecutor demanded eight months' imprisonment for Danilo Dolci...
...skeleton of steel girders that shores it up, a byproduct of the 1927 earthquake. A group of Greek Orthodox priests in conical hats chat quietly in the courtyard, and inside a Russian nun kneels beneath the dim flicker of three lanterns to kiss the Stone of Unction, where Christ's body is supposed to have been anointed for burial (several such Stones of Unction are said to have been kissed away by pilgrims...
...world arched their eyebrows at three BBC broadcasts of British Professor John Marc Allegro of Manchester University last January (TIME, Feb. 6). Philologist Allegro, who had worked on the team deciphering the so-called Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem, drew an imposing number of dramatic parallels between Jesus Christ and the Teacher of Righteousness mentioned in the scrolls of the Qumran community, which were found almost nine years ago near the Dead...
Price: $885,000. After an hour's stormy debate, enlivened by some outraged oratory (the price "represents about 650,000 bushels of wheat, or 6,000 grain-fed steers"), Parliament agreed to pick up the tab for Rubens' The Entombment of Christ, Martini's St. Catherine and Chardin's The Governess and Returning from, the Market...