Word: pagans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thursday in November." Can't our reasons for thanks be chosen on a higher spiritual level before being put into the form of a Litany? And why must democracy and freedom always be equated with the ends of civilization and man? This can only be so in a pagan society. For the Christian religion, upon which Western civilization is, after all, based, these concepts must forever be means and not ends...
...been his party's unchallenged boss. He is credited with having driven three Presidents from office, two Conservatives and one Liberal. A reactionary Roman Catholic, he scourged the Vatican for signing a concordat with a Liberal government in 1942. In World War II he damned the U.S. as "pagan," plumped for the Axis until he saw that it was losing...
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Reinstated in accordance with the commission's findings, she found that traditional "pagan" penological procedures were once again in force, she said, instead of the scientific, Christian methods she had introduced...
...been a rich source of controversy and legend. The Liber Pontificalis, a chronicle of papal history from the ist to the 15th Century, maintained that after St. Peter was crucified head downward in Nero's Circus, somewhere between 64 and 67 A.D., his body was buried in a pagan cemetery near by. Pious legend tells how Constantine, who built the first basilica over St. Peter's tomb (begun 323 A.D.), had Peter's remains embedded in 40 tons of molten bronze overlaid with 30 pounds of pure gold in the shape of a cross. But the tomb...