Word: faith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vision of a City. As far as the man in the window was concerned, these were minor irritations. Out of the excavation on Oliver Avenue would rise a 39-story skyscraper, the Mellon-U.S. Steel building, a $28 million token of faith in Pittsburgh's future. In R. K. Mellon's mind's eye was the vision of a whole new city-a second skyscraper, the $10 million, 30-story Alcoa building rising beside a new $4,000,000 green park, other new office buildings rising on the Triangle's point. It was a vision...
...former Boston College Professor described a "liberal" Catholic as one who did not have his faith always uppermost in his mind. He said that these "liberals" are more concerned with their "quasi-gods," such as science and politics, than they are with their religion...
...While talking to a Catholic Group recently, I was shocked to a realization of what is happening to the faith under the rising wave of liberalism. I happened to mention casually the Catholic dogma, 'There is no salvation outside the (Catholic) Church. Some acted as though I were uttering an innovation they had never heard before, and others had the doctrine so completely covered with reservations and vicious distinctions as to ruin its meaning and destroy the effect of its challenge. In a few minutes, the room was swarming with slogans of liberalism and sentimentalism. Taken in their totality...
Some of the slogans mentioned were, "Salvation by Sincerity," "Membership in the Soul of the Church," "Don't Judge," "Don't Disturb the Good Faith of the Unbelievers," and "It is Not Charitable to Talk about Hell or to Suggest that Anybody May Go There...
...appeal came from Rome this month. It apparently went against Father Feeney. The answer, according to the Boston Herald, "used severe terms of censure against both the priest and his group." The Herald went on to say, "The Supreme Congregation of the Holy Office, which safeguards the faith and morals, had its decision approved by the Holy Father on July 28. The decision adjured the group to return to the Church at the peril of their souls...