Word: faith
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...profit of the dollar-hungry. For a month before the Feast, the cry is: 'Buy! Adeste Fideles. Nylons for your lady! . . . It Came Upon the Midnight Clear. What came, Mummy? Santa Claus, my dar-lings.' " So writes sharp-penned Canon Bernard Iddings Bell in the current Faith and Thought, bulletin of the Episcopal faculty and students at the University of Chicago. The deChristianizing of Christmas was also troubling other Christians last week. In Milwaukee, the community was trying to do something about...
...Hall were one of Britain's most ancient Roman Catholic squirearchies, and ever since the day of "Harry the Eighth, our royal goat" (as Charles Waterton described the monarch), they had been first plundered, then scorned by their Protestant rulers. But the Watertons had never surrendered either their faith or their ancient seat, a mansion on a lake-island in Yorkshire, and had even fought off Oliver Cromwell with swivel guns and muskets. It was no wonder, then, that when Charles, 2yth Lord of Walton, grafted a mad passion for wild life onto the old family root of religious...
Speaking for his society, Wallach asked, "Would you, Sir, deny me the . . . right to gamble on some other religious solutions of the Universal Problem, if, in faith, I should (nonsense, of course), meet all the other criteria for admission to a Catholic Heaven...
...life; that is why it has, in part, dehumanizing effects ... It is not from science that we have to learn what is the task of man and what is the meaning of his existence. These are questions which lie outside the range of science, in the sphere of faith...
...Catholics, Bishop George A. Beck, the Coadjutor of Brentwood, wrote that the Church of Rome could make no "concessions" because "there can be no such things as 'essential' or 'nonessential' articles of faith." In Rome, // Quotidiano, which often reflects Vatican views, agreed: "The strength of the Church is in fidelity to her doctrine . . . For her there cannot be practice without doctrine. Until non-Catholics grasp this ... no union is possible...