Word: crucifixions
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...Shrine of the Little Flower" near Detroit. Money has poured in upon him, more than enough to pay $20,000-a-week expenses and build a showy "Charity Crucifixion Tower," buy statuary for the Shrine. Criticism he can ignore, even that of Boston's stocky old William Henry Cardinal O'Connell who has muttered, "It is better for everyone concerned when a priest keeps his place." For Father Coughlin is responsible only to his superior, Bishop Michael James Gallagher. And he claims the backing of Pope Pius XI who has said that "every minister of holy religion must...
...heat of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, blasphemous city editors raved about the story as "the biggest since the Crucifixion." Last week the story headed the three lists of "biggest news stories of the year" prepared annually by Associated Press, United Press and Hearst's International News & Universal Service...
...Detroit, Negro Robert Harris, member of the Order of Islam (religious society), was arraigned on a first degree murder charge of killing Negro James J. Smith with a knife and automobile axle. Said he: "I killed this man with the crucifixion, because it was crucifixion time. I said 'Ali-ker-slump,' and he fell dead...
...pointing toward an ungracious sky with the other, while eight of his disciples, in attitudes of profound dejection, surrounded the couch on which he had composed himself for his final and most brilliant argument. A picture which, to an age which worshipped stoicism, had the emotional value of a Crucifixion, it achieved, like most of Painter David's works, immense success when it was first shown at the Paris Salon, later in the gallery of a M. de Trudaine who had commissioned...
...once mentioning His name (Lawrence calls Him simply "the man who died") this anti Christian searcher after Christ tells what might have happened to Jesus if He did not really die on the cross. As with George Moore's hero in The Brook Kerith, the agony of the crucifixion and the coma of the burial stripped the Man of his Messiahship. Moore's hero in his revulsion thought he had been wrong: Lawrence's, that his mission was finished. Lawrence's Man showed himself to his disciples but would have nothing more to do with them...