Word: marian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bishops noted that Protestants "find God," through the grace of the Holy Spirit, in Scripture; Paul made it "seek God." The Pope also announced that he would proclaim Mary as "Mother of the Church"-a new title, which the bishops had decided not to include in the Marian chapter of a schema on the church...
...champion failure of all," but Henry was the best writer the Adams family ever produced, and posterity has found him perhaps the most fascinating member of all. In this third volume of a massively detailed biography of Adams, covering the last three decades of his life following his wife Marian's death in 1885, Northwestern University's Ernest Samuels comes closer than anyone else to explaining the enigmatic Adams...
...Tahiti. When his wife committed suicide, Adams gave up the life in Washington where he and Marian had played host to a brilliant circle of politicians and scholars, reflecting that he had become "a sort of ugly, bloated, purplish-blue and highly venomous hairy tarantula which catches and devours Presidents, senators, diplomats, congressmen and cabinet officers." After commissioning Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens to build a memorial to Marian in Washington's Rock Creek Park, he took off on a slow boat to the South Seas. Like any tourist, he drank in the "purple mist and souffle" scenery, ogled...
Died. Archbishop Josef Gawlina, 71, leader of the Polish Catholic community in Rome, who was driven from Warsaw by the Communists in 1947; of a heart attack a few days after climbing the steps of St. Peter's, though weary and infirm, to speak on Marian devotion before the Vatican Council...
...Mexican Bishop Sergio Mendez Arceo dryly pointed out that if Mary were to be titled "Mother of the Church," which is the mother of men, she becomes everybody's grandmother. And Augustin Cardinal Bea, of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, argued that any title implying a new Marian doctrine would do grave harm to the cause of ecumenism...