Word: church
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mexicans believe in tradition, and no tradition is stronger than the annual Independence Day reading of the Grito de Dolores, Mexico's declaration of independence, inside the church in Guanajuato state where the revolution against
...dingy Baptist church near the Kremlin, one of the few churches still open in Moscow, was jammed with some 1,500 Russians, most of them of the same generation as the big, intense man who stood in the pulpit. The preacher: touring Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, a high apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. With an interpreter at his side, Mormon Benson spoke with great emotion, poured out his thoughts with eloquent simplicity. Said he: "Be not afraid. Keep his Commandments. Love one another. Love all mankind. Strive for peace, and all will...
...Odds. Johnny is slated for serious trouble, no matter what his intelligence, skin color or family income. His chances of becoming delinquent: nine out of ten. To head him off, the best efforts of school, church or social workers must be extraordinary. They can be successful, the Gluecks hope, if even two of the five highly decisive factors are altered, so that Johnny's delinquency chances are reduced to six out of ten. "For instance, if the efforts of the social worker were to change the father's typical discipline of the boy from 'overstrict...
Monday is the parish clergyman's usual day off. But the rest of his week is apt to be a hectic succession of committee meetings, Boy Scout jamborees, ladies' auxiliary suppers. From the pulpit of Harvard's Memorial Church last week, Dr. Samuel H. Miller, dean of the Harvard Divinity School, launched into a blistering tirade against Protestant clergy who, at the insistence of their congregations, reduce their office to a "mad dervish dance of unenlightened public activities...
...Simon as an old, overstuffed priest. A village washerwoman (Sylvie) tells him that she is 62, tired and alone. For uncounted years she has turned out every morning at 5 to kneel washing clothes until dark, stopping only for a little bread and oil. Would the father and the church now mercifully grant her leave to take her own life? Another story is a screen version of Novelist Alberto Moravia's II Pupo. A straitened young couple have had one baby too many. They try to abandon it in a church, but it cries and a priest throws them...