Word: lenten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano published the vigorously anti-Nazi Lenten pastoral of the Most Rev. Conrad Gröber, Archbishop of Freiburg, which German authorities had suppressed. "The schism of the German people is undeniable," the prelate declared, adding that instead of bringing unity the war has made the exclusion of confirmed Catholics more evident. And then he bade his flock reject passive resignation as against "conscience and ... the example of Christ" and urged them to resist Nazi efforts to teach their children anti-Christian doctrines...
...Berlin the snowdrifts melted; crossings were flooded; the first flowers-tulips, daisies-went on sale in the streets. In Brussels, where the Lenten processions these days end with prayers that Belgium can keep out of the war; in Switzerland, where patches of brown earth began to fleck the foothills of the Alps, and drove the skiers higher; in Paris, where a sudden blazing sun brought tables back to cafe terraces and cheerful strolling crowds back to the Champs-Elysées-Europe last week was poised between winter and the dread spring that may launch the great offensive...
...speaking dates a year. Three weeks ago he did not let an attack of grippe keep him from engagements in St. Louis and Cleveland, nor a fever of 102° prevent him from preaching at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, where for the tenth year he was Lenten orator...
...part of a broad Lenten program which it is conducting for the first time this year, the St. Paul's Catholic Club will sponsor a talk by the Reverend Francis I. Keean, D.D. at 8 o'clock tonight in the Winthrop House Common Room, on "Christian Marriage...