Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Gus Scholle, president of Michigan's A.F.L.-C.I.O., regarded George Romney's fasting and prayer as a "phony (political) stunt," he not only disrobed his own character, but left one wondering what office Critic Scholle believes Jesus was seeking when he used the same "phony stunt...
Without a cry, without a prayer...
...faith), who will search for scandal in the person's life, question the authenticity of the two miracles (usually medical cures) alleged to be the result of the potential saint's intercession with God on behalf of some person who has invoked his name in prayer. After this test the candidate is declared "beatified"; if two more miracles are authenticated, the person is formally declared by the Pope to be a saint...
...three hours at a stretch. On the narrow streets of Pawla, Labor Party youths and Young Christian workers fought pitched battles with stones and wine bottles. Posters proclaimed: "Every vote for Mintoff is another thorn in the Sacred Heart of Jesus." Maltese spinsters paraded in a pilgrimage of prayer for his defeat, wearing the faldetta, the traditional national headdress. Concluded an English observer: "This is open...
...lower school levels, this means strict training in "habitual good acts," the cultivation of faith and morals that constitutes "soul saving," the impressive air of neatness, manners and discipline that strikes visitors to any parochial school in the land. It means piety: Mass before school, prayer before class, grace at lunch, prayer when school lets out, and an average 2½ hours of religious instruction each week. It means "conditioning the will" in order to have "the power to choose freely what is good in life...