Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commented Thomas Walsh, the C.W.V.'s publications head: "We feel we're doing a patriotic act in giving these people a chance to clarify their position. We're hoping that they are all good Catholics and we honestly pray that they'll answer the questions-bang! We wouldn't hesitate to ask these questions of Cardinal Spellman, so why should we hesitate to ask them of an ordinary one of the flock?" By last week, none of the people being quizzed had answered-bang! except George Addes. The C.W.V. did not publish Addes' answers...
Prayer. "Nearly three men out of five, and more than one woman in five, say they never pray outside [church]. Identical proportions of the more and less educated say they pray...
Reader Hewson's assertion [TIME, April 28] that your " 'Road to Religion' leads exactly nowhere" is a denial of Christianity itself, as well as every other great religion, and his contention that "ours is not to pray but to act" ignores the crucial fact that first we have to know how to act. That is the purpose of religious ethics, teaching and contemplation...
...CONTROL VOTES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES NOR DO WE VICTIMIZE THE FANATIC AND THE GULLIBLE TO RAISE HUGE FUNDS . . . WE CAN NEITHER HALT YOUR CLEVER SLANDER NOR HOPE TO CONVERT YOU TO THE SIDE OF THE TRUTH, AND THEREFORE THERE ONLY REMAINS FOR US TO PRAY FOR THE SALVATION OF YOUR SOUL IF IT CAN BE CALLED A SOUL, THIS MASS OF VENOM THAT FILLS YOUR BLACK HEART AND FLOWS FROM YOUR FILTHY TONGUE...
Next week, with no banquets, no pious speeches, no coast-to-coast hookups, the organization will observe its 30th anniversary. All Friends in the U.S. will be asked to pray and meditate in silence upon the responsibilities of the American Friends Service Committee...