Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Is there to be no compassion?"
For several weeks, said Editor Thackrey, he had given her "space for her verbal tears of compassion for the ordinary Germans," although her views were "repugnant." Now Editor Thackrey baldly questioned her credentials as an expert: "Miss Thompson persuaded us once before . . . that Hitlerism would never be accepted by the...
In 1929 he was ordained Bishop of Haalogaland. High in the Arctic, at the northern tip of Norway, Bishop Berggrav's first diocese was a vast tract of scattered parishes, his parishioners rugged trappers, seamen and fishermen whose lives were an unceasing struggle for subsistence. Traveling among them, the...
Last week Walter Reed's Roman Catholic vigil went into its second month. Since early spring, Catholic patients have filled the chapel (it holds 200) every evening. During the service, wounded from every front repeat a prayer for peace written by Pope Benedict XV: "Dismayed by the horrors of...
The timing was dramatic. Last week, for the Christian world, was Holy Week -the seven most holy of Lent's 40 days in which are solemnized Christ's temptation in the wilderness, His agony before and during the Crucifixion, culminating in the promise of the Resurrection. Last week...