Word: christly
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Most Americans speak of the Soviets as people they have never seen, except as figures occasionally spotted on television, but a good many are trying to remedy that state of mutual isolation. Some members of the United Church of Christ, for example, invited the Soviets to send a group of visitors on a tour of New England. Last April came a newspaper editor, a Russian Orthodox bishop, a scientist and six others, who stayed in rural homes and ate pot-luck dinners. "It was the first time many of these people had ever done anything like this," says Elizabeth Gardner...
John Paul engaged in diplomacy of an entirely different sort last week, becoming the first Pope to preach in a Lutheran church and the first to join in any Protestant worship in Italy. The place was the severe, white stone Christuskirche (Christ Church), which mainly serves the German diplomatic and business community. A group of Lutherans had approached John Paul when he visited a nearby Catholic parish in 1982 and asked, "Won't you come and visit our church too?" The Pope later raised the subject with the local pastor, Christoph Meyer...
...week before Christmas in 1980, Daniel Donnelly filed suit against his city of Pawtucket, R.I., challenging the constitutionality of Nativity scenes on public property. U.S. District Judge Raymond Pettine declared the display unconstitutional, holding that "government may not assist in the fight to keep Christ in Christmas." The second part of the drama unfolded last November when a federal appeals court upheld Pettine's decision. Finally, with the aid of the U.S. Justice Department, Pawtucket further appealed the findings to the Supreme Court...
...words "Anno Domini" (translated: "in the year of our Lord") or "A.D." have pervaded our time references, are chiseled into nearly every federal building, and are found in every Presidential document. And the most telling of all, we publicly continue to celebrate the birth and crucifixion of Jesus Christ in our two most important holidays--Christmas and Easter...
...Martenot. The orchestra is so big that it overflows the pit to envelop both sides of the stage and several boxes. The subject is the spiritual transformation of Francis the man into Francis the saint. "I have chosen Francis," says Messiaen, "because he is the person who most resembles Christ: chaste, humble, poor and bearing the stigmata as a mark of God's approbation...