Word: marian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Church of England Newspaper last week looked hard at Pope Pius XII's prayer to the Virgin Mary, composed for the opening of the Marian Year (TIME, Dec. 14), and found in it implications of "rank heresy...
Beer & Skittles. Next day, refreshed by this news, and by water from a nearby spring, Bedrich and Marian Cech took a desperate chance. Armed with their tools and Marian's lumberyard identification, they marched straight up to the stationmaster and told him that they had been sent to expedite a carload of lumber urgently needed at Trieste. The gamble paid off. Soon afterward, thanks to a railroad official too used to bureaucratic interference to question it, their car was newly coupled to a fast, westward-bound train. With their secret compartment now stocked with hot coffee and thirst-quenching...
Jubilee Year. The purpose of this week's Roman holiday was the formal inauguration of the Marian Year, proclaimed by the Pope to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the promulgation .of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception (which holds that the Mother of Jesus Christ was preserved from original sin). For the occasion, the Pope drove through downtown Rome for the first time since the war. In the Piazza di Spagna, at the foot of the magnificent Spanish Steps, he stopped to place a bouquet of flowers at the column commemorating the Immaculate Conception. Then he drove...
Pius entered the basilica, under a velvet and damask canopy, while the choir sang the triumphant Tu es Petrus. Then, with members of a Catholic Action youth group, he recited the prayer he wrote for the Marian Year: "Enraptured by the splendor of your heavenly beauty, and impelled by the anxieties of the world, we cast ourselves into your arms, O Immaculate Mother of Jesus . . . Bend tenderly over our aching wounds. Convert the wicked, dry the tears of the afflicted and oppressed, comfort the poor and humble, quench hatreds, sweeten harshness, safeguard the flower of purity in youth, protect...
When Pius IX proclaimed the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception a century ago, the Age of Enlightenment had proclaimed sin to be a word with which to frighten children, scientific progress was god, and man was widely regarded as merely a higher animal. The Marian dogma challenged this non credo of the age-an assertion that man is sinful but touched by God, that the greatest mysteries are beyond science, that the supernatural and the spiritual are real. That is also the significance of Pius XII's attention to Mary, including the proclamation three years ago of the Dogma...