Word: communing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia, Mo., University of Missouri Students Albert Waters and Jack Kilpatrick were having a theological discussion. Said Student Waters, "I feel a sudden urge to commune with my Maker." Student Kilpatrick handed him a revolver in fun, stuck his fingers in his ears, was terrified when Student Waters pumped a bullet through his brain...
...younger priests patterned their Alliance after a group in Manhattan led by Dorothy Day, onetime Socialist, and Peter Maurin, onetime French hobo, whose radical Catholic Worker competes with the Daily Worker in Union Square. Radical Catholics Day & Maurin maintain a House of Hospitality and an Easton, Pa. farm commune for Catholic proletarians. What they call "the dynamite of Catholic teaching" and submit as an alternative to Communism is contained in the labor encyclicals of Popes Leo XIII and Pius XI, the most timely point being that both pontiffs agreed that workers have not only the right but the duty...
...unlettered independence of mind almost inconceivable; but in spite of the complexities of this century the solitude of which Emerson spoke is still within our sight. For all who are caught in the web of twentieth century civilization, one escape is clear and it is no retreat. We may commune with the sages of the past, we may share the accumulated spiritual wealth of humanity. By the daily "renewing of our minds" we may hope for that "newness of our understanding" which will assure us eventually the real liberty of an independent soul...
...Pastures, apostrophizing God as "Mr. Creator." He corresponds with Mahatma Gandhi, whom he emulates in humility and lack of interest in money. When he was younger he got up at 4 a.m., went to the woods to pick flowers, gather specimens, observe animals not visible later in the day, commune with...
...have changed my mind. I want to go to hell to see the devil burn those Yankee uniforms off Joe Wheeler and Fitz Lee.*- I had thought," continued the sabre-tongued Senator from the side of his mouth, "that I would like to go to heaven and commune with the spirits of Patrick Henry, Clay and Calhoun, Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson. But, like old Jube, I seem disposed to change my mind, and to go, temporarily, to the other place to see the devil when he burns those strange uniforms off of some people who think they are Democrats...