Word: faith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office is the awesome tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church which guards the integrity of Catholic faith & morals, deals with heresies (it once had charge of the Inquisition), handles mixed marriage cases, maintains the dread Index of Prohibited Books. So potent is the Holy Office that it is nominally headed, not by a Cardinal, like other congregations, but by the Pope himself. Last week the Holy Office-with or without the knowledge of Pope Pius XI-was in the centre of a holy row, kicked up by a devoted but backboned British convert...
...personal gain. We lack the superb courage which impels action because it is right. Our greatest fear is not to do wrong, but to be caught doing wrong. Our conception of virtue is conventional. We take religion lightly and we think lip-service equivalent to a deep, abiding faith. Patriotism among us is only skin deep and incapable of inspiring heroic deeds. ... A wrong adaptation of foreign customs creates in us, especially among the young, a feeling that politeness is commonplace and that smartness and insolence are equivalent to good breeding. We attained our freedom but our spirit is still...
After eight days' discussion, the delegates called on the democracies to unite against "aggressor" (fascist) nations, European Socialists splitting from their young U. S. comrades to support collective security. The Congress decided it had not lost faith in the League of Nations, urged the League to recognize Germany and Italy as the aggressors in Spain, proposed to end war in the Far East by boycotts of Japan. As the second World Youth Congress adjourned, some of the delegates, who had only one-way tickets, turned to lecturing and hitchhiking to get home...
...Madam," said the preacher, a man of faith, "teeth will be furnished...
...Senator Norris of Nebraska: "Felix Frankfurter is the most outstanding personality to continue and carry out the judicial philosophy of these great statesmen [the late Associate Justices Holmes and Cardozo]. The common people of America have faith in President Roosevelt. He will perpetuate that faith if he places Mr. Frankfurter on the Supreme bench...