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...position to say "They got themselves into the mess, let them get themselves out." But certainly we are more to blame for the situation than they are, for it is we Catholics who by our excesses and dishonesty have scattered these sheep from the flock and driven them out and away from what is just as much theirs as it is ours...
Beethoven at Last. To Virgil Thomson, critic of the New York Herald Tribune, who devoted three tart Sunday columns to the subject, the biggest audience in the U.S. is getting very poor service indeed. He had a flock of letters from readers telling him, "How right you are!" Both Ward French, president of Community, and Marks Levine, board chairman of Civic, were ready to tell him how wrong...
Easter is the one day of the year when everyone who calls himself a Christian goes to church, if he ever goes at all. Congregations flock churchward in their Easter best, and the churches themselves are brave with flowers; the preachers for once preach joyful sermons, the singing soars with hallelujahs. After the penitential season of Lent, the long winter night of the Christian year, Easter comes like the dawn -the dawn of the first day of spring...
...Soon his flock must learn to trust a new shepherd. Church authorities have just assigned young Pastor Bernhard Stoeve-sand to be Bartel's assistant and successor. Stoevesand faces the same long training Bartel began three decades ago, has started by giving religious instruction to children. In the sentence, "Suffer the little children to come unto me," he shows "suffer" by a natural soothing gesture, "the" with the little finger of the right hand as expressed in the deaf-mute alphabet, "little children" by a baby-rocking gesture and "come unto me" by pointing to himself...
...came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile." There isn't a single moral problem that the office party at Yuletide raises that won't be solved if the wives insist upon inviting themselves . . . At least this is the Victorian suggestion I am submitting to my Sunday flock of a thousand...