Word: faiths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through the din of protest, was what I know to be a fact: That Jews suffer no greater restrictions on their religious life than do others in Russia who still believe in God. Great numbers of Baptists and Orthodox Christians are no more, no less persecuted for their faith than Jews. Why must the American Jew assume he has a priority on suffering...
...responsible for a program aimed at the religious and cultural restriction of Jews. Indeed, so extensive is this anti-Jewish policy that it is not at all certain that Jews today are better off than in czarist times, except materially. The religious Jew before 1917 could practice his faith, unlike the contemporary...
...Peter's physique, such as a bone deformation. Finally, while the bones unquestionably have a personal significance for the Pope, his announcement comes at a time when the church is gradually de-emphasizing the value of the physical relics of those it honors as defenders of the faith...
Other speakers expressed their concern that rebel elements within the church are corroding faith, and contended that even the U.S. hierarchy is not exempt from the liberal disease. Keynote Speaker Frederick Wilhelm-sen, professor of philosophy and politics at the University of Dallas, declared that "the bishops of this nation labor mightily like elephants and then bring forth as solutions the mice of secular liberalism." The problem with liberalism, explained L. Brent Bozell, editor of the Catholic monthly Triumph (and brother-in-law of William Buckley), is its view of a world in which man is self-sufficient...
...forum deplore the translation of the Mass into English. They also feel that religious education has lost its moorings; some charged that new catechisms recently introduced into parochial schools are heretical. For all their zeal, the Wanderers concede that they are fighting a lonely battle to preserve the true faith. "Orthodoxy is now on the run," said one speaker, "its foot soldiers in disarray...