Word: christs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troubled by the fact that many confessors tell their female penitents that face lifting and similar plastic surgery is wrong, appealed to Jesuit Father Virginio Rotondi for a ruling. Rotondi, a priest reputed to enjoy the Pope's special confidence (he divulged the Pope's vision of Christ two years ago), replied that plastic surgery is good or evil, or neither, according to the purpose for which it is performed. The surgeon himself is usually justified. His unobjectionable purpose is to earn a living and remedy ugliness. And the patient-unless his motive is actually evil, like that...
...Russia. Then Pope Pius XII himself slapped down the reconciliation rumors. Before any agreement with "the enemy" could be considered, he reiterated, the church must have full freedom-not merely freedom of worship but freedom "to care for her faithful and freely to preach the message of Jesus Christ...
...were eager to see in Main Street support for the comforting conviction that Americans, though rich, were a pretty uncouth lot. So Lewis was warmly received, but not all appreciated his japeries. When he met some prominent Irishmen, his notion of humor was to sing a funny song about Christ walking on the water. Lewis insisted on doing imitations at dinner, and they went on too long. He even fancied he resembled Bernard Shaw and bought a wig at Clarkson's", the theatrical wigmaker, to improve his Shaw impersonation (the older clown was not amused...
...reached the conclusion that man's real history is religieus history and that civilizations are really nothing but steppingstones in man's progress to deeper spiritual insight. Yet Toynbee, an Anglican in childhood, always showed himself so ready to range various prophets, gods and philosophers alongside Christ that the question inevitably arose just what kind of Christian he was. That question is more fully answered in his new book, An Historian's Approach to Religion (Oxford; $5), in which he writes about the religious condition of today's world...
...Communism says there is no God. Christianity says there is . . . Christianity is not frightened but challenged, not dismayed but stimulated . . . This is because Christianity has outlived, outdone and outdied all forms of dictatorial government and way of life . . . [Today] people must be willing to give their lives for Jesus Christ. In the present world God has use for expendable people only...