Word: church
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Church is not something made by men. It is the instrument of the living God for the setting-forward of His reign on earth . . . This is an hour of testing and peril for the Church, no less than for the world. But it is the hour of God's call to the Church . . . For those who have eyes to see, there are signs that the tide of faith is beginning to come...
...trary to Christian faith and practice, for it denies the existence of God, Revelation and a future life; it treats the individual man as a means and not an end ; it encour ages class warfare . . ." But the headway made by Communism is in itself a judg ment on church and society, for in many minds Communism has replaced the church as the challenger of oppression and poverty. The church's best rebuttal is to "be a fearless witness against political, social and economic injustice." A committee headed by Bishops J.W.C...
...many lands there are Communists who are practicing Christians," i.e., who believe in Marxist economic interpretation but repudiate Marxist atheism. When a Soviet correspondent asked the Archbishop of Canterbury for examples of such "Christian Communists," he was silenced by Canterbury's reply: "The members of the Russian Orthodox Church in your own country." The Archbishop added, "Not all anti-Communist forces are necessarily good forces...
...Denver, Msgr. John R. Mulroy challenged a survey on religious beliefs and attitudes among 788 Protestant and Roman Catholic students at the University of Denver. Said he: "A survey to reveal differences in their attitudes has no validity in the Catholic Church. If students do not believe alike, then they are not Catholics...
...Bridie's soul, for Protestant Grandma Lisha could not abide Rome. When a cousin asked Bridie to marry him, she agreed to "turn" Protestant, and Aunt Lisha, delighted, left her everything when she died. But then came Catholic Aunt Rose Anne to invoke the wrath of the church, curse her roundly and give her a clout besides. Poor, sweet, ignorant Bridie, half demented by repeated bouts of intolerance, rushed wildly out of the house, was found dead in a boghole next...