Word: faith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Inquisition held full sway over Spain, its agents found (and painstakingly listed) 27 different ways in which the "New Christians" continued to worship in their old faith. In 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella published an edict: "There yet remains and is obvious the great harm which has come and still comes to Christians from . . . conversation and communication . . . with the Jews. [They] have made it clear that they would always endeavor by all possible ways and means to ... draw away faithful Christians from our Holy Catholic Church . . . For [this] greatest, most dangerous and most contagious of crimes...
When young William Purcell Witcutt was studying for the Anglican ministry some 20 years ago, he met Roman Catholicism's famed Author-Convert G. K. Chesterton. Under Chesterton's influence, Witcutt renounced his faith. In 1934 he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest, and was assigned to St. Anne's parish, Wappenbury. His sermons and writings (including Catholic Thought and Modern Psychology) were so successful that by last year, at 41, he was regarded as close to the top rank of England's Catholic literati. Then suddenly, last October, he disappeared, and until a month...
...preaching, but he will sit with the congregation until he "reabsorbs the atmosphere of the Church of England." Though he had little to say to the press, he admitted: "The reason I left the Catholic Church was because I grew to dislike the rigidity of the Roman Catholic faith; I prefer the broader outlook of the Church of England...
...happy over this return to the Anglican fold, but added: "This is nothing so unusual. In my own diocese alone, we have several Roman priests who have come over to us. But it is not our habit to advertise the conversion of a man from Rome to our faith. It is not our way of doing things...
...Colorado Springs, Manchester, N.H., St. Louis and Memphis. U.S. gallerygoers would find the paintings short on skill, long on human interest. Many of them would agree with the French poet, Guillaume Apollinaire, on the subject. Said he: "Enchanted and painstaking awkwardness . . . enough to touch even those who have no faith...