Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of Man it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in that which is to come . . ." Yet in this wonderful painting we see the Christ Child and John the Baptist fighting over the dove, and John has pulled a handful of feathers from it! . . . Joseph and Mary look on approvingly; indeed, Joseph appears delighted...
...only a faith, not only the past in which they glory. They were cheering not only the Pontifex Maximus as they have almost always cheered him, but a man. For Eugenio Pacelli, for the past 15 years known as Pius XII, Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ, is a new kind of Pope...
Jubilee Year. The purpose of this week's Roman holiday was the formal inauguration of the Marian Year, proclaimed by the Pope to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the promulgation .of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception (which holds that the Mother of Jesus Christ was preserved from original sin). For the occasion, the Pope drove through downtown Rome for the first time since the war. In the Piazza di Spagna, at the foot of the magnificent Spanish Steps, he stopped to place a bouquet of flowers at the column commemorating the Immaculate Conception. Then he drove...
Protestant Cullmann here seems to side with the Catholics. There is scant doubt, he says, that the Matthew text is both accurate and very old. Furthermore, the meaning of the original Aramaic is crystal-clear. "Kepha" was the Aramaic word for "rock"; it is also the name by which Christ called Peter...
...founder of the church without being the founder of a visible church succession. Says he: "Foundation and building may not be interchanged . . . In so far as Peter is the rock, he is such in the temporal sense of laying the foundation as an apostle. In every generation, Christ intends to build His church on the foundation of the apostles,, and among them Peter is the most important . . . The significance of individual churches for the church at large comes and goes. But the rock, the foundation for all churches of all times, remains the-historical Peter...