Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Consternation spread through the village, and soon afterward the news was all over Italy. Quivering with rage, Italy's chief Communist organ L'Unita reprinted the village priest's proclamation under the sneering three-column headline, CHRIST UNDER ARREST, and accused Don Camillo of making Jesus his "private property" and of treating "Corpus Christi like a batch of spaghetti payable in return for the Christian Democrats' vote." Against these fulminations, Don Camillo found himself supported and praised by the Vatican's newspaper Osservatore Romano. Don Camillo, it said, correctly "deemed it improper that solemn homage...
...Liberator Simón Bolivar were a tall crucifix and eight urns containing the ashes of Colombian soldiers who fought in the Korean war and in the country's own backlands guerrilla war. Rojas then read off a solemn oath, swearing the servicemen, in the name of Jesus Christ and in the memory of Simon Bolivar, to "fight for the domination of the Third Force until Colombians lay down their political hatreds before the national banner." They took the oath. Next afternoon, at Bogotá's Campin stadium, Rojas likewise swore in a throng of youth, labor, farm...
Citation: "To scholarship you have brought an understanding of the questions which modern man puts to the life of Christ. As a critic-being yourself a poet-you have clarified the spiritual urgency that informs the outstanding poetry of our time...
...17th century the Puritan movement brought a wave of millennialism, and with it the notion that for Christ's second coming the Jews must be liberated and perhaps even converted. Cromwell, impressed less with the Messianic than the political and economic advantages of taking the Jews back, allowed them to resettle and establish a synagogue (though no formal decree was ever issued...
...This is an age of the world when nations are trembling and convulsed . . . and is America safe? Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion . . . Oh, Church of Christ, read the signs of the times...