Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems to me that the farther out in space we go, the more we need to have something to hold onto-stars just don't make good straphangers! Catholics et al. should not forget 2,000 years of practical psychology that worked-not to mention that "out" word "faith...
...heel, a seemingly intrepid liberator of mankind who is cringingly adept at saving his own skin, a born false Messiah. Brecht rather ingenuously indicts Galileo for not ushering in a sempiternal age of reason and for recanting before the agents of the Inquisition. Actually, Western man adopted an unquestioning faith in science that more than redressed any betrayal of freedom of thought that might properly be ascribed to Galileo. But the earth and men's minds have turned again since Galileo's day, and they now question whether science has not led them with the former inexorability...
Ultimately, of course, this strategy depends, just as inevitably as the Marxist, on the third means of acquiring power, that of Numbers, since the other means are not permissible. Thus one has to wait until enough people have been converted to the new faith which means a long wait...
Died. Greet Hofmans, 74, Dutch faith healer whose influence on The Netherlands' royal household made headlines around the world in 1956; of unknown causes; in Amsterdam. In 1949 the gaunt, gravel-voiced spinster, who claimed that God had invested her with supernatural powers, was summoned by Prince Bernhard to work her miracles on the young and partially blind Princess Maria Christina. The ministrations failed, and in 1950 Prince Bernhard ordered the faith healer from the palace-though Queen Juliana continued to consult her and allowed her to have meetings on Queen Mother Wilhelmina's estate. Rumor held Miss...
...test of a good religion," G. K. Chesterton once said, "whether you can make a joke about it." Judging by The Shoes of the Fisherman, Roman Catholicism is an excellent faith indeed. This saccharine Pope opera is sober-faced and straitlaced, but it would be hard to imagine a parochial-school sixth-grader taking it seriously...