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Throne & Altar. Dibelius was born in Berlin, the son of a high government official in a Germany prosperous, pious and proud. It was 1880, just nine years after Count Otto von Bismarck had Wilhelm I crowned Emperor of Germany in the Hall of Mirrors of the defeated French at Versailles. The Dibeliuses were a family of civil servants and clergymen -an uncle of Otto's was court chaplain to the King of Saxony-and he was brought up, as he tells it, "in the Reich tradition." The hero of his student days at the University of Berlin was "Bismarck...
Lercaro went to work with social action instead of pious platitudes. When the Pope gave bishops authority to pool and redistribute the income of their clergy, he was one of the few who tried it and made it work. "To everyone, something," he said. "Those who have more should not have so much." In Ravenna, not long after, the Christian Democratic vote doubled and the Communists lost control of the city. Lercaro was promptly posted to Bologna, the biggest Italian city still run by the Reds. Last January he became a cardinal...
Ever since 1531, when, according to pious belief, the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared miraculously to a humble convert, Mexico has revered her. Her image, which emerged wondrously on the convert's poor cloak as a sign of the authenticity of his vision, is the country's most honored shrine. Last month, for a huge mural on Mexican theatrical history, ex-Communist Artist Diego Rivera solemnly sketched the famed comedian Cantinflas in his trademark-uniform, a shabby coat, and then drew the Virgin on the coat. "Sacrilege!" protested Mexico's devout, while Rivera, ignoring the uproar, diligently filled...
...Indian government took extraordinary precautions to protect the pilgrims. All of them had to receive anti-cholera inoculations and, despite the objections of the sanyasis, the area around Gomateswara's hill was sprayed with DDT, killing multitudes of living things in the process. Amidst the pious shouts of pilgrims, a public-address system warned: "Beware of pickpockets...
...inquisitorial as an army barracks'' and the American businessman "the most grievous victim of his own militant dullness." At the same time, Lewis kept firing away at his literary enemies: the "genteel philosophy" personified in William Dean Howells, a writer with "the code of a pious old maid whose greatest delight was to have tea at the vicarage"; literary commercialism, which bent the imagination to a soapsuds formula, and highbrow professors who "like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead...