Word: preach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flock object to his dual faith. They are strongly in favor of Mindszenty. Father Molnar barely managed to prevent a violent clash between Mikofalva's Communists and the pro-Mindszen-ty villagers. "A spark could have set off the flame," he said. He did not dare preach against Mindszenty. Privately, however, he referred to the cardinal as an anti-democrat. To Father Molnar it seemed that the cardinal simply had not been reasonable. "He knew he would be arrested sooner or later. He could have escaped. But he wanted a showdown between Church and State. Now there will hardly...
...Jews set about their exodus. Wrote a Spanish priest: "There was not a Christian who did not pity them." Dominican friars indefatigably tried to convert Jews and thus save them from exile. They burst into synagogues to preach the Christian gospel, but rabbis thundered back the teachings of Moses. Some Jews were converted. The majority preferred to leave their homes and their wealth behind. Many Jews removed tombstones from their cemeteries and took them along into exile. Their last ships left Spain the day before Columbus sailed for the New World...
Whatever happens, missionary boards will give missionaries every encouragement to stick it out-even if they should be forbidden to preach from their pulpits or teach in their schools. Said Dr. Frank T. Cartwright, China secretary of the Methodist Church's Division of Foreign Missions: "Some of the conservative boards may feel that doing mission work under the Communists is compromising with the Devil, but most of the larger boards feel that if we are allowed to teach Christianity, or even live a life of Christian witness alongside Communism, we would do it. We believe Christianity can stand...
Green Hair falls short not because it hasan idea but because it has one too many (it tries to preach against both war and intolerance), and because it labors so clumsily to 'cram its ideas into the mold of "entertainment." As a result, the message seems as contrived and insincere as a singing commercial, and just about as entertaining...
...Archbishop of York [TIME, Nov. 22] may follow the rule laid down by the late Father Zehentbauer, professor of moral theology on the Catholic theological faculty of the University of Vienna: "The early Christian Communists taught and practiced 'What mine is, is thine'-while our modern Communists preach and practice 'What thine is, is mine...