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...Pinafore, Cox and Box, The Gondoliers, The Yeomen of the Guard, Patience) was velvety and letter-perfect as ever. To the irreverent, there might be something a trifle ritualistic about the performances, as though the matter in hand were sacred music rather than light opera; but the devout could only praise Heaven that nothing had been changed, that not a single present-day allusion had been adlibbed into the patter songs...
Franklin D. Roosevelt is an Episcopal churchwarden and an occasional worshipper, but he has never been so prone to invoke his Maker as were Calvin Coolidge and Warren G. Harding. To many devout churchmen he appeared to have the failings of most modern political liberals - a secular conception of political morality, an indifference about religion's place in the modern state. Last week, as Franklin Roosevelt delivered his message to the 76th Congress, it was evident that he, like other liberals, had come to feel differently about religion in the world about him. His opening words were texts...
Adding a new catch-word to his growing collection, Mr. Lippmann fixed on the President's references to religion as being the casiest to distort. With a skill derived from experience, he took Mr. Roosevelt's concept of devout, pious, moral religion and deliberately confused it with the medieval dogma of temporal churches. And out of this tortured thinking he drew a religion of his own making, "mysticism" as practised by the Oxford Group, passive, ennervating, a religion that would do away with such Marxian innovations as strikes, wage increase demands and the class struggle in general. Labelling this...
...etcher to the anger and disgust shown in a portfolio to be exhibited early this month at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Entitled Ecraser l'Infàme ("Crush the Infamous"), these etchings are by a 33-year-old Austrian, Baron Rudolf Charles von Ripper, an "Aryan" and devout Roman Catholic, who, in the winter of 1933-34, spent three and a half months in a Nazi political prison on a charge of high treason...
...Pope is Wrong. Dr. Ley did not forget that he was addressing, among other German workers, many more or less devout Catholics, all of whom know that Pope Pius XI has taken the strongest stand against anti-Semitism and inferentially against Naziism (TIME, Aug. 14). Attacking His Holiness directly, Labor Front Ley blasphemed: "The Pope is wrong because he recognizes only one Catholic race. But Almighty God was not so papal as the Pope. He made differences among races! There are positive and negative elements in the human race and the negative can exist only as parasites?as witness...