Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Horace said: 'If you would make me weep, you must weep first.' Unless we cast a few sparks, how shall the convert catch fire...
...gratuity should ever be accepted from a convert, not even a stole fee at baptism. They will hear plenty of money sermons later on, and it would be a good idea to start them off with a memory of never having heard money from the priest who instructed them...
...Effective convert-making requires systematic action," writes Jesuit Father John E. Odou, in explaining the organization called Convert Makers of America, of which he is director. Founded in 1944 to enlist the Catholic laity in proselytizing for their faith, the C.M.O.A. requires of its members that they correspond once a week with a priest-adviser on the problems and progress of their convert-making. "Trains, hotels, depots, beauty parlors are all crowded with potential converts," writes Father Odou. "That is why the slogan used by every C.M.O.A. is: 'Never let an opportunity slip...
Sharpest observations on contemporary convert-making come, as might be expected, from the most famed proselytizer of all, Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen. Modern converts, he writes, unlike those of past generations, have nothing to be converted from ("It is no longer Protestantism from which we convert souls; it is confusionism...
...mood, bright, pardlike and impermeable, had been clouded by a sweat of nostalgic and religious dither. Worse still, Brideshead was the first of Waugh's novels to become a U.S. bestseller. His fans had reluctantly winked at the fact that he is a conservative and a Roman Catholic convert. But popular? No literary cult can tolerate popularity in its prey. The boys were preparing to dump Evelyn...