Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scribbled a hasty postscript on the envelope that held his message. He warned his fellow priests to be skeptical if they heard that he had resigned, or had "confessed." Even if they were shown his authentic signature on a confession, they should consider his signing as the result of "human frailty," i.e., the result of his inability to withstand Communist torture...
...Mindszenty, the Hungarian government formally announced that "under the weight of evidence against him [he] made a confession." But, so far, the Communists have not published any confession, with or without his signature. Cardinal Mindszenty, despite the human frailty he knew, was a strong man. Just before his arrest, he had written: "This is now the word of the Sermon on the Mount: 'Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven...
Last week, 57 of the best of France's ex-votos (sponsored by the American Federation of Arts) were on exhibition in Manhattan. Next stops: Baltimore, Colorado Springs, Manchester, N.H., St. Louis and Memphis. U.S. gallerygoers would find the paintings short on skill, long on human interest. Many of them would agree with the French poet, Guillaume Apollinaire, on the subject. Said he: "Enchanted and painstaking awkwardness . . . enough to touch even those who have no faith...
...would be "falling" freely, the crew would not feel the earth's gravitation any more than do the passengers of a freely falling elevator. Their bodies, tools-and food would have no weight except that caused by the feeble gravitation of the satellite itself. No one knows whether human bodies would function under such conditions. One proposed solution: making the satellite spin. This would produce centrifugal force that would act like gravitation. Then the satellite's crew, walking around on the inside of the shell, would feel more or less at home...
...pastor of Stockholm's fashionable Hedvig Eleonora parish: "I have read this with the greatest discomfort." Said Dean Anderberg of Uppsala, chief of Swedish army chaplains: "For that kind of thing I can only use the old-fashioned word 'heresy.' When religion is degraded to serve human desires, it becomes entirely useless...