Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accordance with the request of 28 Cardinals, Pope Pius XI began the procedure for the beatification and subsequent canonization of his predecessor, Pope Pius X, by appointing postulators. The function of the postulators is to prove that Pius X performed "an heroic degree" the three theological virtues-faith, hope, charity- and the four cardinal virtues-prudence, justice, courage, temperance. The Abbe Pierami, procurator general of the Valombrosan Benedictines, was elected chief postulator for Italy. It is stated that all the Sacred College living in Rome, with the exception of Cardinal Pompili, who as Vicar of Rome must be the judge...
Both the prosecution land the defense made emotional appeals in their final address to the jury. 0. L. Smith, Assistant Attorney General of Michigan, made his plea for conviction on the basis of patriotism, urging the jurors to keep faith with our soldier dead " beneath the crosses on Flanders Field." Frank P. Walsh, chief counsel for the defense, compared the Foster trial to the trial of Socrates and the persecutions of the early Christian martyrs, and quoted from Plato, Thomas Jefferson, Wendell Phillips, and the Declaration of Independence in behalf of the right of free speech and revolution...
Lord Eobert's unshakable faith in his dream-almost-come-true...
...analyzing this new movement toward faith, this era of spiritual restlessness, Dr. Fosdick brought out several factors that he considered to be the fundamental sources of modern religion. He showed that an intellectual revolt from the hard, materialistic view of the world was becoming more and more in evidence...
...Other factors in the renaissance of faith," Dr. Fosdick declared in conclusion, "are the popular apprehension at the modern break-up of homes, and the realization of man's need for spiritual protection...