Word: faith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young Franciscans in the first two rows of camp chairs cocked their ears to catch his words; from under a dozen brown habits cameras appeared. For half an hour, under a blazing sun, Father Berard spoke in Navajo of the mission's history and the meaning of the faith...
...Orthodox princes of Muscovy. Ivan's father, Prince Serge Obolensky, renounced his own Czarist title to become a U.S. citizen, eventually became manager of Manhattan's Sherry-Netherland Hotel. But even though Colonel Obolensky married an Episcopalian Astor, he brought his son up strictly in the Orthodox faith and hoped he would marry...
Said the bridegroom: "If I signed any such agreement, the effect of it was not realized by me. I was willing to participate in a wedding ceremony in accordance with my wife's faith and she felt the same about mine." Excommunicated Claire made no comment at all. The archdiocese hinted that she could be reinstated in the Roman Catholic Church if she made a confession of error and did proper penance...
...Unitarians (71,419 members) and Universalists (44,349 members), formal creeds have long been an abomination: in matters of faith, every-conscience-for itself is the accepted rule. But last week it seemed as if both churches were feeling the need of a statement of faith-even if it made a creed of creedlessness...
Meeting in Rochester, N.Y. for their week-long Biennial Assembly, 700 delegates of the Universalist Church of America talked about cutting loose once & for all from "supernatural Christianity" and proclaiming a "truly universal faith." The Universalist Church, said the Rev. Brainard Gibbons of Wausau, Wis., should "proclaim a new type of universalism which is boundless in scope, as broad as humanity, and as infinite as the universe. For a long time, Universalists have been reaching beyond the narrow bounds of Christianity to pluck their grapes of knowledge from the vines growing in the boundless vineyards of truth, and the religious...