Word: martyrdom
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...Paul Carlson's pastor, I wish to express my deepest appreciation for the magnificent way that you told the story of his martyrdom...
...French Catholic philosopher Etienne Gilson touched on the subject of priestly celibacy. "The Pope's face became gloomy, darkened by a rising inner cloud," Gilson later reported. "Then the Pope added in a violent tone, almost a cry: 'For some of them it is martyrdom. Yes, a sort of martyrdom. It seems to me that sometimes I hear a sort of moan, as if many voices were asking the church for liberation from the burden. What can I do? Ecclesiastical celibacy is not a dogma. It is not imposed in the Scriptures. How simple it would...
...Three thousand to four thousand Catholic priests [July 24] underwent their "Golgotha" in Nazi Europe during the years 1939 to 1945. They became victims of Nazi persecution for their silent or outspoken resistance against the Third Reich. The martyrdom of these priests, who sacrificed their lives for their faith in the service of the church, is the only valid answer to the accusations of indifference of the Catholic Church toward the Nazi regime...
...Paul VI in Hungary, where he is still seeking to work out a modus vivendi for the Church. Paul has also established a new Secretariat for Non-Christian Religions, headed by Paolo Cardinal Marella of the Curia. In the past, the church has sometimes preferred noisy and heroic martyrdom rather than graceful surrender of ancient privileges. Now Rome, with Christian and Moslem Lebanon acting as intermediary, is trying to work out a "Tunisian formula" with Moslem-run Sudan, which this year abruptly exiled all of the country's Catholic and Protestant missionaries...
...Church," and was killed at a Bavarian prison shortly before its liberation by American troops. But Bonhoeffer's vivid, prophetic writing-outlining his dream of a "religionless Christianity" that would speak afresh to the modern secular world-is probably more important to young seminarians as a consequence of martyrdom...