Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Father Isaac Thomas Hecker was in hot water. The 37-year-old Redemptorist had arrived in Rome to discuss with the head of his congregation a matter that was troubling some of its members in the U.S. -the best way to preach the Roman Catholic faith to Americans. Within a few days, he found himself expelled from the Redemptorist Congregation on the ground that his trip had violated his vows of obedience and poverty. For the next seven months, the worried priest hurried from prelate to prefect, pleading the need for an English-language mission to the U.S. At last...
...realized one of its causes: their mother had become a symbol to the great symbol-maker of "the Irishwoman, the accomplice of the Irish Catholic Church, which [James] called the scullery-maid of Christendom." Stanislaus laces his book with anticlerical gibes; the brothers' joint rejection of the Catholic faith culminated in a scene at their dying mother's bedside in which Jim and Stanislaus refused to kneel and pray for her-an episode that Joyce later used in Ulysses as the source of Stephen Dedalus' "agenbite of inwit," i.e., remorse...
...Glenview, Ill. housewife last week, "that I'm beginning to feel like retreating myself." The kind of retreat she was talking about-a program full of organized "activities"-would not have been recognizable to most U.S. Christians of a generation ago. But her Glenview Community Church, and the faith it fosters, is symptomatic of a kind of Protestantism that is burgeoning in the suburban nondenominational churches all over the U.S. The International Council of Community Churches now has 217 members, estimates that there are at least more than 1,500 other community churches in the U.S.-many of them...
...President's repeated statements of good intentions and solid faith do not solve the crying need for action. The President's power is weakening--in his last term, he faces a Democratic Congress and a disillusioned nation--and he does not seem adequate to the pressing need for major decisions. If executive leadership is not forthcoming, and there is little precedent for it, the task of unifying the defense command, providing for a more adequate warning system and shelter system, and hastening the missile and satellite programs moves by default to Congress. Unfortunately, Congress has shown no real leadership...
...said Kashmir must decide its own future, but shied from saying whether he still favored independence. The man who had staked his career on his faith that Moslems could live as equals in Hindu India now charged that India had "smashed the confidence of the Kashmir people." He accused Nehru's government of discriminating against Kashmir's Moslem majority by denying them army promotions and postal jobs, of setting up a central intelligence bureau in Srinagar to bribe and corrupt his officials, of sabotaging his land-reform program. "I did not betray India," he roared. "It was India...