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Word: churched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life, was completely storm-tossed by the invasion. Anne-Marie's mother stayed mostly at home and watched her flower beds get trampled. Only the importation by the Rockefellers of four publicity men from the U.S. (one of whom promised to signal from the front door of the church when Anne-Marie said her jo) enabled the newsmen to get their stories while ensuring a little privacy to the participants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: An Ordinary Girl | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...rained on the wedding day, but, as every sentimental newsman reported, the instant Steven and pale but happy Anne-Marie were joined in marriage, the sun began to shine. Bride and groom came to the church steps for another round of news pictures. When Governor Rockefeller was asked by photographers to kiss the bride, he answered, "This is Anne-Marie's and Steve's day, not mine," and stepped back into the church. Pastor Olav Gautestad spread his benison even over the unflagging newsmen and photographers. It was encouraging, he said, that in this day, when "most youths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: An Ordinary Girl | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...this point, just when he should have relaxed, the sick (cardiac disease), suspicious President picked a new fight with a more serious opponent: the Roman Catholic Church. On Duvalier's orders, his tough cops grabbed up Father Etienne Grienenberger. rector of St. Martial, Haiti's largest Catholic college, and Father Joseph Marrec, a small-town pastor, and hustled them roughly onto a New York-bound plane, expelling them from Haiti for "reasons of internal security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Beset President | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Duvalier had long harbored a resentment against the church, considering it a bastion of the opposition. Most of the priests are white, French-born and close to the mulatto upper classes that strongly oppose Duvalier, a Catholic himself but with close political links to the voodoo priesthood. When 1,000 priests, nuns and churchgoers gathered in Port-au-Prince's Notre Dame Cathedral to protest the expulsion order, Clement Barbot, the President's cold-eyed secretary and secret police chief, led a gang of bullyboys into the cathedral on a wild, baton-swinging charge, arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Beset President | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Orthodoxy also tends to look askance at Protestant disparity and elasticity in matters of faith and order. One paper, read by Professor Chrysostom Konstanti-nidis of Turkey's Halki Theological School, was based on the assumption that Eastern church traditions are closer to original Christianity than Western traditions. Yet few Protestants took offense. Said Lutheran Professor Hendrikus Berghof of The Netherlands: "Our Orthodox friends speak very frankly. They say, 'You are not the church, and we are the church,' and we applaud. We need a real conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: World Council in Rhodes | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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