Word: faith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while it looked as though the Foreign Ministers Conference would never end; this week, finally, the conference unraveled itself and managed to adjourn. The limited agreement reached between the West and Russia was largely a declaration of intention; as such it would please those who have any faith in Russia's good intentions...
...control of the church and its schools, rejected the charges leveled at the church hierarchy, pointed out that "the issue does not concern a settlement between church and state ... It is an issue of ... replacing Christianity by Marxism, which assumes for the state the rights in matters of conscience, faith and morals -something no Christian can accept...
...moved to the altar for prayers. He leaned heavily on his staff, tapping it audibly on the flagstones while two acolytes helped to support him. First he prayed for the youth of Czechoslovakia, that they should not be misled. He prayed for those Catholics who are wavering in faith, that they might be strengthened and not "turned aside by lies and distorted reports." Last he prayed for the "Judases who are betraying their priestly calling, who are allowing themselves to be tempted by short-term successes and material benefits...
...Despite the fears of men of little faith, the Class of '49, and the Classes of '45 and '50, have proved that we can make our ideal of broadened opportunity work in the nation's colleges and universities. . . . To the classes of the future, we owe the assurance that the experiment will be continued...
Gradually he has won the interest of scoffers and agnostics among the painters, even including a few Communists, e.g., Picasso. Father Couturier welcomes them all, whatever the state of their faith. "We start," he explains, "with the assumption that artists are men and therefore sinners. If their sins are sometimes startling, it is because they are men of imagination, artists. But all spring from our culture and even our religion . . . When some think themselves communist, it is as artists are communist, out of love for the poor. We must free them to work for us, give them the right...