Word: church
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be difficult to conjure up a picture more completely at variance with the facts. At Amsterdam, it was at every point a discussion "within the family," carried on by Christians and friends who recognized and treated one another always as such. Even the divergence in definition of "church" to which TIME calls attention was merely a recording of an old and familiar difference, far less significant than the wholly unforeseen measure of understanding and agreement, greater than in any comparable Christian assemblage ever held. My own impression is that this was the most newsworthy fact about Amsterdam-such differences...
...long since gone; the red dust of Minas cakes their half-deserted streets. But Aleijadinho's heroic monuments remain. Each year in mid-September, Mineiros rise from their huts and hamlets and journey by foot, by truck and by train over the scarred hills to the shrine-church of Congonhas do Campo. Last week, as they had for a century and a half, some 200,000 Brazilian peasants made the pilgrimage to kiss the sacred image of the Dead Christ in Aleijadinho's Church of the Bom Jesus...
Atop the hill, Aleijadinho's church stood in isolated splendor, its 16 soapstone prophets jutting above the buttresses. Here carnival melted away in the solemnity of the shrine. The pilgrims swarmed reverently past six little white buildings housing the sculptor's Stations of the Cross. They fell into two lines. Some shielded lit candles as they waited; most lit their candles as they entered the church...
...quietly living out his years in the French zone, was about to get a glittering reminder of the old days. The British, acting on a 1946 tip, had dug up the crown of the Hohenzollerns, hidden during the war under the false step of a crypt in a tiny church. This week, after some careful investigation to make sure of its authenticity, the gold-heavy gewgaw, studded with 150-odd rose-cut diamonds and topped by a giant sapphire, was on its way back to its rightful owner...
...recall, had the University Congregation been convened during the "Long Vac." But last week, with almost a month of vacation still ahead, the Hebdomadal Council (Oxford's "cabinet") summoned a special session of Congregation (the academic legislature). To the black-gowned, curious dons, Dean John Lowe of Christ Church broke an exciting piece of news...