Word: church
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harm to Church Groups...
...word was spread thoroughly. In Manhattan this week members of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, meeting in a "peace rally," were advised to join "Parents-Teachers associations, the Elks, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and church groups" to "work for peace...
This week the Roman Catholic bishopsof Czechoslovakia came to open defiance of the Communist government'snew laws to control and suppress the church (TIME, Nov. 14). In a letter to Communist Premier Antonin Zapotocky, the bishops told how they had tried to meet the government at least halfway, had issued "conciliatory directives" telling priests to accept state salaries and take an oath of loyalty to the Red regime. In return, the bishops said, the Communist government had issued new decrees which were "an attack on the organization and life of the church." The bishops' letter concluded: "We cannot...
...Lamberto Maggiorani) whose only talent is to attract misery. He and his small son (Enzo Staiola) spend a grey Sunday scouring Rome for the stolen bicycle that is necessary to the father's bill-posting job. Their thief-chasing Odyssey takes them through various institutions (soup kitchen, church, bordello, political meeting, fortuneteller's), supposed to inspire or comfort the miserable. After being treated as a bumbling nuisance at each of these havens, the hero tries unsuccessfully to steal a bicycle, and then tearfully walks home to a hopeless existence...
Even when he was riding an alligator in the forests of British Guiana (see cut) or indulging his habit of "scratching the back of his head with the big toe of his right foot," Naturalist Charles Waterton (1782-1865) could not forget or forgive the Reformation of the Church of England. The Watertons of Walton Hall were one of Britain's most ancient Roman Catholic squirearchies, and ever since the day of "Harry the Eighth, our royal goat" (as Charles Waterton described the monarch), they had been first plundered, then scorned by their Protestant rulers. But the Watertons...