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Thus writes Henri Ghéon, pious French Roman Catholic, in the recently published Secret of the Cure d'Ars.* Far from used up is the Cure of Ars: he was canonized only 14 years ago as St. Jean Baptiste Vianney. During most of his lifetime (1786-1859) the priest of an obscure village near Lyon, the Curé of Ars is today by papal command a model for parish priests the world over. Since it takes more than mere goodness to make a saint, M. Vianney (as Hagiographer Ghéon for brevity calls him) is easier...
Gone from the international scene was Eduard Benes, for 20 years Europe's "Smartest Little Statesman." Last President of free Czechoslovakia, he was now a sick exile from the country he helped found. Pious Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, Man of 1937, was forced to retreat to a "New" West China, where he faced the possibility of becoming only a respectable figurehead in an enveloping Communist movement. If Francisco Franco had won the Spanish Civil War after his great spring drive, he might well have been Man-of-the-Year timber. But victory still eluded the Generalissimo and war weariness...
Predicting that plans for mutual defense of the Americas will get no farther than "pious expressions of good intentions," he said that the previously proposed "American League of Nations" will probably not be adopted. "The small states would only accept such a scheme on a basis of absolute equality of voting power, a plan to which the large states may never agree; this conflict is the real stumbling block," he explained...
...19th Century saw U. S. women emancipated in many fields-but not in religion. The first U. S. women's missionary body, founded in 1819 after a Methodist divine exclaimed, "The help of the pious females must not be spurned," was purely ancillary to a male board. When, in 1869, eight women formed the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, an independent body, churchmen tried to persuade them to let it be administered by men, who knew about such things. But the women stuck to their purpose, which was "engaging and uniting the efforts of the women...
...pious, highly literate city of Columbus, Ohio, enough Sunday newspapers were printed last week to build a dam of comics, features and news across the Olentangy River. A phenomenon in modern U. S. journalism had taken place: two new full-size Sunday newspapers were started on the same day in the same city...