Word: missions
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Named "The National Provisional Steering Committee," the trio was charged with calling a national convention that would be "entrusted with the task of electing a provisional leader for the nation." As for the junta, it announced modestly: "The armed forces will return to their purely military mission of protecting the nation and fighting Communism, neutralism, colonialism and all forms of dictatorship and betrayal...
...week's end, Turkey grudgingly gave its consent to a Greek request that the troop rotation be postponed. Archbishop Makarios flew blithely off to Alexandria to confer with an old friend and ally, Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. His reported mission: to secure Nasser's permission for Greek and Russian fighter planes to use Egyptian bases in the event of a Turkish invasion of Cyprus...
Until 1908, the U.S. was in Vatican eyes still technically a mission land, and even after that, to many Protestants, Catholicism remained a second-class faith for third-class citizens-the Irish, Polish, German, Hungarian and Italian immigrants who brought their religion with them in the steerage. Now Roman Catholicism has become by far the nation's largest and richest Christian denomination. The latest edition of the Official Catholic Directory says that there are 44.8 million Roman Catholics in the U.S. Actually, there may be 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 more than that, for, as one bishop...
...Heaven by Storm. Ordained in 1921, Cushing spent his first eleven months as a parish priest. Then he had an interview with his archbishop, princely old William Cardinal O'Connell.* Brashly declaring that he wanted to "take heaven by storm," Cushing asked to be sent to the foreign missions. "Your foreign mission will be where I send you," the cardinal answered, and eventually named him chief local fundraiser for the Society for the Propagation of the Faith...
...great that one letter to his residence came addressed to "Come On Wealth" Avenue. He takes in and gives out about $20,000 a day. "No combination of 20 U.S. bishops has raised as much as Cushing has in nickels and dimes and half-dollars for the mission," says one bishop. Most of Cushing's donations come from what he calls "the mighty mites" of average Catholics, although he has a few tame millionaires whom he taps regularly, such as the Jewish couple who own Rockingham Park race track in New Hampshire. Last year he performed a spectacular feat...