Word: churches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take jobs in factories to pursue their evangelizing mission more effectively; wearing overalls, they held fulltime jobs, said Mass and performed other pastoral duties during off hours. By 1953, it was obvious that something had gone wrong: of almost 150 worker-priests, some 20 had married and left the church while others had joined Communist unions or Redline causes. Pope Pius XII sternly limited les prêtres-ouvriers to three hours of factory life a day, but only a handful submitted; others left the church, and only 25 continued in their mission, eventually won limited approval from their bishops...
Speaking for the Holy Office, Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo agreed that the church must try to recapture the French workers' allegiance (although he noted stiffly that men who received the "sacred and indelible mark of baptism" could not be considered totally "de-Christianized"). But, continued Pizzardo, "it is above all through words that the priest must testify, and not by manual labor accomplished among workers as if he were one of them . . . Work in factories or shops is incompatible with a priest's life and aims." Even if a worker-priest could find time to say Mass and perform...
There were signs that the French hierarchy, traditionally jealous of its independence from Rome, was disgruntled by the sharpness of the Vatican's order. "Rome could tell us to stand on our heads and of course we would," said one church official in Paris, "but even upside down we would hold fast to our own view on what is at stake here...
...shirt; he was caught two years later only because he tried to sell it to an honest Florence art dealer. Three centuries earlier, the Duke of Modena became so enraptured with Correggio's Virgin with St. Magdalen and St. Lucy that he had it stolen from the church of Albinea, and it has never been found. In 1876, Gainsborough's portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire vanished from the sales rooms of London's famed art dealers Agnew & Co., was returned for reward 25 years later by a onetime Chicago gambler. Even the Toronto Art Gallery...
Radcliffe's 81st year began officially yesterday with the formal opening of the College at 4 p.m. in the Cambridge Congregational Church. Addressing students in the College and the Radcliffe Graduate School were Kathleen O. Elliott, dean of Instruction, Janet Webster '59, president of the Student Government Association, and Wilbur K. Jordan, president of the College...