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...summer of 1505 a man in Saxony was knocked flat by a bolt of lightning. "St. Anne help me!" he cried as he lay on the ground. "I will become a monk...
...bishops surrender after two years of valiant resistance? Because the alternative would have been complete liquidation of the church in Hungary. Last June the Communists showed that they would stop at nothing, when they raided Catholic monasteries and convents, imprisoned monks and nuns by the thousands. Soon afterwards the bishops started to negotiate. They had decided that a church with some liberties, however limited, was preferable to no church at all. The negotiations went forward slowly, and they were surrounded by elaborate propaganda designed to prepare for the ultimate decision. Early last month a conference of Hungary's Roman...
Christianity, said the dean, is a way of living, not a way of talking, or even of thinking. "Although Christ was strict in dealing with the temptations of the flesh, He was gentler with such sinners than Puritanism. The ideal Christian is not the monk or hermit, nor is he, as was sometimes thought in the 19th Century, the respectable...
...Victor Deckx, he had listened politely enough when a white-robed monk came to the church recently to preach a mission against the ungodly superstitions present in Witgoor; but when it came time to pass the plate, Victor had pointedly ignored Martha Minnen's outstretched offering. Soon afterward Martha's children came home from school complaining that no one would play with a witch's kids. That was when Martha decided...
...shall the church adapt its leadership to the changing society? One faction, led by Laval University's dean of social sciences, the Very Rev. Georges-Henri ("Jolly Monk") Lévesque, argues for a militant championship of the working class; this faction has promoted cooperatives and Catholic trade unions. An opposing group, supported by Quebec's Premier Maurice Duplessis, believes that the rural parish society must be strengthened and that the church must stay aloof from class antagonisms, though it should fight for social justice...