Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Added Grace: "The recent slap at Mexico and Peru in the form of lead and zinc quotas should never have occurred. Political pressure from three mountain states should not have been permitted to strike down our relations with 175 million Latin Americans and damage their faith in us. Can we regain our position in Latin America? For our mutual survival, we must...
...Catholic Church in Latin America are a shortage of priests and heavy inroads by Protestantism. To overcome them, Archbishop Antonio Samore, a member of the Vatican State Secretariat, described a "positive" approach. "We are not against anyone or anything," he said. "We just strive to strengthen our own faith, to increase the number of our priests and to make their work more effective...
...Russia the idea of the Kingdom of God was transformed into the vision of the classless society; Japan instituted emperor-worship and the messianic mission of the Japanese people. Bishop Newbigin believes that technical culture is not religiously neutral. If it does not keep its roots in the Christian faith, it will have to find a new absolute, and will become demonic...
...witness the demonic power of all idolatrous thought. The New Testament conception of the Antichrist--a false messiah of this world pretending to power of the world to come--is here relevant. In the lectures we are attempting to understand our age in terms of New Testament faith. The idea of purposive change, basic to science, derives its moving force from the Christian doctrine of the Kingdom of God. In our days we have a secularization of the Christian eschatology...
...local variety. In 1921 campaigning for Mayor against John R. Murphy, a good Irish Catholic, Curley dressed up a few of his camp followers as priests and sent them across Charlestown and elsewhere bruiting it about that John R. Murphy had renounced his Catholic Faith, joined a Masonic Order, had been observed attending Back Bay's Trinity Church, and intended to divorce his good wife in order to marry a sixteen-year-old girl. As the campaign was drawing to its successful close, Curley asked a Roxbury audience, "Where was James Michael Curley last Friday night? He was conducting...