Word: christly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Visiting Brazil, a country in which doing something as simple as giving bread to a worker on strike can be a political act, Pope John Paul II last week did his work in the shadow of two Christs: the passive Christ who said, "My kingdom is not of this world," and the active Christ who called upon all mankind to "love thy neighbor as thyself...
...trying to bring Neal back to life, bring Jack back to life, make Carolyn rich and famous. Don't they know that what's dead is dead, that Neal and Jack are dead, that the fifties are rotting away under Time's tombstone, that the sixties are dead, that Christ! even the seventies are dead...
...Heaven? It distracts people from "the real tasks of the Communist rearrangement of life on earth." Conversely, hell dampens "the rage of the working people against their oppressors by planting a hope that the latter will be punished after death." Easter fosters "ideas of a class peace and forgiveness." Christ's love-thy-neighbor teaching is "egotistical and antihumane...
...since the Nazi Holocaust, the play has been a source of controversy as well as cash. Jews and liberal Christians alike have charged the play with antiSemitism. The recounting of Christ's Passion, though it is drawn from the New Testament, embroiders considerably upon the biblical accounts. The florid script, rewritten from older versions in 1860 by Parish Priest Joseph Alois Daisenberger, fixed blame for the Crucifixion totally upon the Sanhedrin and the Jewish rabble, which amateur actors portrayed with much shaking of angry fists and fiendish cries for Jesus' blood. After the Second Vatican Council declared...
...Pope was celebrating his 60th birthday. So was Rome's Church of Christ the King, whose cornerstone had been blessed the same day that Karol Wojtyla was born in Wadowice, Poland, in 1920. How appropriate then for John Paul II to visit the church to celebrate Mass and enjoy a joint birthday cake. What a cake: 132 Ibs. of sponge soaked in Grand Marnier, cream filling, icing in papal yellow and white, marzipan coats of arms, and all topped by a milk chocolate model of Christ the King. Blowing out the single candle, John Paul ordered the cake distributed...