Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Friars have somewhat the same mission as France's controversial worker-priests. But their tactics, as well as their tight, centralized direction, are vastly different. Says Cardinal Lercaro: "The worker-priests hide the fact that they are priests; they act clandestinely, whereas my friars defend the teaching of Christ in the piazza in broad daylight." Like Father Toschi, all the Friars come from working-class families, and they are used to taking hard knocks. (Some of them fought with World...
...Christians revere the Apostle Peter, but in varying degrees. Roman Catholics regard St. Peter as the first Pope, the "rock" on whom Christ built His church, to be ruled by him and the Popes who came after him. Protestants deny this. In! most Protestant circles, furthermore, Peter's reputation tends to play theological second fiddle to the more dramatic personality of his contemporary Paul...
Apostle Par Excellence. Peter, as Professor Cullmann depicts him, was the "apostle par excellence." He was the first to see Christ after the Resurrection, and the man whom Christ singled out in giving collective charges to the apostles, i.e., "Feed my sheep" (John...
...Foundation Only. If Peter, to use modern Protestant terminology, was simply the head of a foreign mission board, who had formerly been moderator of the church, what of the Catholic scriptural claim about Christ's promise to build His church on the "rock" of Peter, with his accompanying command to rule the faithful?† Luther and the Protestant reformers held that by "rock" Christ meant not Peter but Himself, or the faith of His followers. Many modern Biblical scholars insist that the text itself is either spurious or garbled...
...masterpieces, but the picture does demonstrate his growing genius. Beyond that, it glows with the animal drive and good spirits that were to make Rubens the most grandly physical of painters. No one ever depicted a jollier St. Joseph, a more cheerfully aggressive John the Baptist, or a bouncier Christ Child...