Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important Buddhist sect which bears its name, McNamara and Khanh set off on foot for the shrine which once was home of the Hoa Hao sect's late founder. Standing in its silk-bedecked interior, McNamara placed both hands before his chest in the Bud dhist attitude of prayer and bowed. Afterward, the visitors stood beaming as Khanh presented a U.S.-made hearing aid to the founder's mother, a partly deaf octogenarian who still lives on the place; the old woman seemed baffled but appreciative...
From Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly On Prayer...
...commenting on it irreverently and making merry. They answer all serious problems with a "Well, let's eat!" These commoners represent the masses of Poles, who are less tormented than the Polish intellectual, but even they are destroyed by the priests. The first scene in which they join in prayer is the last scene in which we see them alive. The camera shows them upside down, as it always shows the priest at his devotions...
...Sunday collection -and when that added up to only $8, the ushers made it an even $10. The state headquarters of the Oregon Democratic Party sent a check for $1,000, and the Sisters of St. Mary telephoned to say that they had nothing to give but a prayer. It all seemed that sentimental last week when the Portland Reporter (TIME, March 6) struggled back to life after running its own obituary...
...take place in car pools and Laundromats." The example of Pope John XXIII and the presence of Protestant observers at the Vatican Council have dramatically changed the attitude of U.S. Roman Catholics toward men of other faiths. Boston Irish are no longer surprised when Richard Cardinal Cushing kneels in prayer in an Episcopal church. For the first time since he became Archbishop of New York, Francis Cardinal Spellman attended a Protestant funeral last week. The service was for Mrs. Robert F. Wagner, the Presbyterian wife of the city's Catholic mayor; the Cardinal also authorized her burial...