Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Encyclopedia of Catholicism in the Twentieth Century came off the presses last week. The rest will appear at the rate of two volumes a month for the next six years, and will contain "everything a Catholic could want to know on any subject in which his religion is involved." Daniel-Rops split up this "everything" into 14 categories-part one deals with faith and knowledge, part six (13 volumes) treats the Bible, part nine (19 volumes) handles "Problems of the World and the Church," such as Communism, psychiatry, the state. A category is devoted to other Christian religions...
...Letter. Daniel-Rops had the idea for his encyclopedia last year, when he noticed how questions about matters of faith were crowding his mail. "I became conscious that the public wanted spiritual culture," he explains. "I had to find a way to answer them...
...years since his first essay appeared in print, Daniel-Rops has produced some 70 books, the most important of them religious histories, and they have broken all French records for sales. Estimated sales: 1,500,000 copies, not counting translations. Estimated income from books alone: $400,000 in ten years...
...Daniel-Rops's popularity is not limited to churchmen. On his election to the French Academy last year, he won the votes of traditionally anticlerical members. And when a small group of friends began a fund to buy him the academician's customarily ornate sword, they were swamped by almost 2,000 contributors-including five cardinals, twelve foreign ambassadors, former Premier Pierre Mendès-France, Movie Actress Claude Nollier, Dressmaker Pierre Balmain, the entire staff of the women's magazine, Marie-Claire, and a boy scout troop...
...equivalent of an M.A. in each, won his agrégation (slightly higher than Ph.D.) at 21. He became a lycée professor in Neuilly, continued teaching until 1945. His first book, a volume of essays called Notre Inquiétude, was published in 1926. He signed it Daniel-Rops-the name he had invented for a character in an un published short story...