Word: kneeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read, it seems to me that Protestants have some sort of vague notion that Catholics worship and revere and obey the Pope as peasants once did their lords. This notion is entirely false. The average Catholic has a healthy respect for the Pope, but little more. He would kneel in his presence but most certainly not at his voice. Is that not reasonable? For, after all, a voice is but a voice, whether it is that of an announcer or a Pope or a President...
...Sepulchre, were 13 other U. S. citizens last week, constituting the first national council of the Order to be formed in the U. S. Among reputed founders is Godfrey de Bouillon, a leader in the first crusade which wrested (1099) Jerusalem from the "Infidels." The 13 candidates prepared to kneel in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, be given spurs and sword, draw sword and be tapped on the shoulder with it, in true medieval fashion. Most socialite of the thirteen knights: Kenneth O'Brien, son-in-law of Knight of Malta Clarence Hungerford Mackay...
...broiling Barcelona day last week 30,000 children marshaled by hundreds of priests gathered for an open air prayer festival at which it is a local custom to pray masked. Many and many a child sneaked off the sweltering mask during the long prayer, but all remained devoutly motionless kneeling under a grilling sun. When the prayer ended 28,000 tots rose and prepared to march away but 2,000 continued to kneel as though stupefied or paralyzed in the attitude of adoration. Doctors pronounced them sunstruck. Several hundred had to be rushed to hospitals, all were expected to recover...
...distressed by a sacrilege which had been perpetrated in the Holy City itself; but the Papal newspaper Osservatore Romano rejoicing to announce that a portion of God's work is being done even by the Bolsheviks, because they, by their infamies, have brought Protestants and Jews to kneel in prayer for a petition initiated by the Pope...
...kneel down in front of me," commanded Statesman Stimson, at the same time bringing a camera into focus. "Kneel down, and while you take a picture of me I shall take a picture of you in that position...