Word: persecutees
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
"With no wish to persecute one man, it is still sadly necessary to say it: In that courtroom we have suffered a small, an intimate, a personal Pearl Harbor-but not, unhappily, an insignificant one."
Gossipy Angle. Even Margaret's well-intentioned gestures about the wedding had ironic overtones. Because half of the 2,000 invited guests in Westminster Abbey will be screened off from the altar, Meg has ordered closed-circuit TV sets installed in the Abbey for the first time to relay...
"It is not a good thing that in Connecticut and Massachusetts women should be subject to grievous suffering because Roman Catholic pressure refuses to allow even doctors to give information on birth control even to non-Catholics.* It was not a good thing for Christians to persecute and even burn...
In the end, the excesses of her more diligent henchmen sickened even Elizabeth, the Queen who presided over the liquidation of Roman Catholicism in England. After about 180 executions, including the Jesuit Robert Southwell, Elizabeth said that if her council wanted to convert more Catholics to the Established Church, they...
"It is not enough that the Pontiff be gifted, that he know human and divine sciences and that he will have explored and experimented the subtle reasons of diplomacy and politics. That which is above all needed is a saintly Pope . . . The new vicar of Christ should be a bridge...