Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Georgia, the republic from which the Dictator comes, the Orthodox clergy promptly pressed their advantage under the new Constitution by opening a public campaign demanding that divine service be resumed in all church structures in Georgia which have not yet actually been destroyed. The Orthodox bishops, priests and delegates of Orthodox believers from the vicinity of Tver, Yaroslavl and Ivanovo-Voznesensk dared and succeeded in holding without molestation from the Secret Police an assembly to decide the electoral policies of the Church. It became a question whether religious groups should attempt to nominate for election to the Supreme Soviet priests...
...Molokani sect. At Torzhok a majority of girls belonging to the Young Communists also belong to the Church. Most scandalous and alarming of all from the Communist point of view: the Soviet press has been reporting that in public baths Red Army soldiers are frequently seen with small Orthodox crosses hung by a string around their necks...
...Contributors to Success." Whatever may be Dictator Stalin's personal views on God and Orthodoxy-he buried his second wife in a onetime Orthodox convent (TIME, Nov. 21, 1932)-Soviet leaders who are with Lenin against God were vastly relieved last week at signs that the past three months of leniency and revelations concerning the persistence of religion in Russia do not actually mean that "The Most Democratic Constitution in the World" grants in fact what is granted in words by Article 56 of the Electoral...
...Publication of Father Noel's Life of Jesus*, over which he labored for 30 years and which has left him blind, should clear up the matter of his views. But the lengthy volume may disappoint some religious radicals. Its interpretation of Jesus' life is unexpectedly mild, unexpectedly orthodox on miracles and other matters which do not impinge on social revolution. Of Feeding the Five Thousand, Father Noel says, "Is it too fanciful to suggest that ... we have a picture of an ordered society in which men will no longer grasp for themselves, and trample on each other...
...representative to the U. S. (Monsignor Francisco Satolli, later the first Apostolic Delegate to the U. S.) who was empowered, among other things, to look into the McGlynn case. Single-Taxer McGlynn gave Monsignor Satolli a statement of his views which so convincingly showed them to be fundamentally orthodox that, at once, the Pope's representative declared him free from censure. Though it has since been frequently intimated to the contrary, Single-Taxer McGlynn regained his priestly standing without being obliged to retract a single word of his utterances on economics...