Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cardinal Spellman should stick to prayer and forget politics...
...people think that what U.N. needs most is divine guidance. Ever since its foundation, letters have poured in urging that U.N. open its sessions with a prayer. A nondenominational "prayer room" was proposed for U.N.'s new Manhattan headquarters. Bowing to the fact that U.N.'s members are of many different faiths (some are specifically atheistic), a special committee of the General Assembly last week dodged the explosive issue. It recommended merely that each annual assembly session be opened and closed with a minute of silence, which each delegate would be free to use for prayer, for meditation...
...valuable piece of real estate from a notorious gangster (Thomas Gomez), and almost drive a songwriting neighbor (Hugh Marlowe) out of his mind before he capitulates. In their childlike faith, they brush aside every staggering obstacle in their path. When things look really tough, they say a prayer to St. Jude, patron of the impossible...
...Ohio, a statute was passed and signed providing that "treatment of human ills through prayer alone by a practitioner of the Christian Science Church, in accordance with the tenets and creed of such church, shall not be regarded as the practice of medicine." This new law made Ohio the 48th state of the U.S. to legalize the public practice of Christian Science as a healing...
...detailed bill of particulars indicting the state's campaign to "completely exterminate the church of Christ." It accused the government of all manner of persecution, of deceit, fraud, kidnapings and robbery. "All the ecclesiastical press . .. has been suppressed ... Every Catholic book which is to be published, even prayer books, is subjected to preliminary state censorship. State plenipotentiaries are planted in Catholic publishing houses . . . The church is deprived of the last remnants of its property . . . Almost all church schools have been wiped out, and those which remain are painfully insecure . . . Teachers of religion are tested ideologically and are given directives...