Word: churched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly before Pope Pius XII published the decree, Czech Communists had taken another step in their assault on Prague's Archbishop Beran and his hierarchy. In a memorandum signed by Party Secretary Rudolf Slansky, plans were made to build up a government-controlled national church. Another circular detailed punishments for priests who had read Beran's pastoral letters denouncing Communist persecution of the church. "Finally," said the circular, "we shall accuse [the Catholic hierarchy] directly of high treason...
...Cannot Serve." The Vatican was well aware that the excommunication decree might cause some Catholics to leave the church. It had to balance this risk against one it considered greater: the confusion that resulted in two opposing allegiances that could not, in the end, be reconciled...
More than half the population of the U.S., about 77 million out of an estimated 148 million, are enrolled church members. In the 1949 edition of the Yearbook of American Churches, published last week, the Federal Council of Churches calls this the biggest such proportion in U.S. history. But Council Secretary Dr. Samuel Cavert ruefully notes that only 30% of the total membership-i.e., 30% of the 46,000,000 enrolled Protestants, 25,000,000 Catholics, 5,000,000 Jews, 1,000,000 Eastern Orthodox-go to church with any regularity. "On the surface, at least," says he dryly...
Bishop Fjellbu (pronounced fyellboo) warned against any "attempt to pass judgment on capitalism and communism as economic systems"; the church, he said, should condemn "only a totalitarianism which makes claims on the whole man and seeks to restrict his religious freedom." Bishop Dibelius, who referred to Western Berlin as "a fortress amid the Red Sea," wanted strong language...
...magnificent altarpieces and light-filled portraits, and whose works are now prized by the world's great museums. With 142 of his 180 extant paintings and drawings, collected from all over Europe and the U.S., this is the largest Bellini show ever held. The great polyptych of the church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo in Venice was painstakingly restored for the occasion...