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...Every Christian has an obligation to contribute to pious works," said Palestra del Clero, a fortnightly published for priests in Rovigo, near Venice. "For the clergy, this contribution is tantamount to a restitution, because no priest can ever say, T received nothing from the church,' ignoring the fact that the seminary educated him, the church conferred priesthood on him and the hierarchy entrusted him with an apostolate. Furthermore, the practice of the virtue of poverty, enjoined on every priest, demands personal detachment from all worldly possessions, both in life and more so. in death." Other publications were more blunt...
Richard Milhous Nixon, 47, the presidential choice, is the second of five sons* of Francis Nixon, an unsuccessful Southern California citrus farmer, and his wife Hannah, a pious Quaker. When Frank Nixon's lemon grove failed, he moved his family to Quaker-led Whittier, on the outskirts of Los Angeles, and opened a small grocery. Dick spent his after school hours and his summers helping out in the store and with the chores in his meager home. "Richard always pulled the shades down when he washed the dishes," his mother recalls, "so that people wouldn...
Said Theologian Franzmann: "A compromise prayer, in which Moslem, Hindu and pious agnostic may join, is always and everywhere an abomination on the lips of a Christian ... A prayer which is the product of a blind, sentimental enthusiasm and therefore conceals or smoothes over differences in themselves divisive is indefensible...
...Most people feel that because we are nuns we have lost our appreciation for feminine matters," says Sister Lorenzina of Rome's Catholic Pious Society of the Daughters of St. Paul. "Quite the contrary. A woman remains a woman even after she takes the veil. If she lost her feminine soul, she would become a cold, sterile human being...
...nice and fine on paper, you haven't learned how much in this world is determined by non-syllogistic reasoning." On the subject of religion, he is gently detached. He recalls how as a young man, in the midst of a Yom Kippur service, he looked around as pious Jews were "beating their breasts with intensity of feeling and anguishing sincerity," and he decided that his presence among them was "a kind of desecration" since their creed no longer had any meaning for him. Years later he listened to a sermon by Reinhold Niebuhr and said to him after...