Word: paganisms
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...pagan worship of love-sensuous love-lies buried with the beautiful lost civilizations of the Tigris-Euphrates, the Nile, and the Aegean. Lost-man's rich, dark, deep blood-consciousness...
...should send missionaries and religious teachers to South America. President Contares of Venezuela offered to give land for a Catholic college as soon as U. S. bishops furnish priests. On the other hand, South Americans resent U. S. Protestant proselytizing, deplore the fact that, instead of going after the pagan and the unchurched, U. S. missionaries (except the Episcopalians) attempt to convert good Roman Catholics to Protestantism...
...Hitler-Franco treaty appeared to put the Franco imprimatur upon the works of Alfred Rosenberg, Germany's pagan, anti-Christian ideologist, and upon the Völkischer Beobachter, which has sounded the Nazi tocsin against Catholicism "until the point of total annihilation." If enforced, the treaty would suppress in Spain the Vatican's Osservatore Romano, which has called Hitler "anti-Christ," the Pope's encyclical With Burning Sorrow, which denounced Nazi racialist principles. In short, the terms of the treaty were directly at variance with a Franco pledge, cited last week by Jesuit America, that...
Magic. At Corsica the French used a neat bit of pagan lore to warn off the Italians. As the Premier was being ecstatically hailed by the fiery islanders in Ajaccio and Bastia, French warships circled the island. No Corsican-and no Italian-could have failed to get the point that this was a modern version of the old Norse magic of surrounding a spot with fire (in this case, navy steel) to keep out evil (Italians...
...world which Christ's coming had been meant to save, the age which had vainly taken his name for nearly 2,000 years, were a world and an age in which Christ's Gospel was met, nearly everywhere and nearly always, with lip service, pagan indifference, subtle hostility or outright persecution. Symptomatic was a Nazi decree that in Germany Christmas was to be celebrated in "Germanic" rather than Christian fashion, that religion was to be kept out of public Yule exercises...