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...preach the Christian doctrine of tolerance...
...thing, there were his sermons on taking the profit out of war. Says he: "One or two people always stomp angrily out of the church whenever I intimate that anybody ever made a profit out of war." He also preached against "the obsession with making money," and "sharp practices in business." Some of his critics thought it was the last straw when, in celebration of this year's "Brotherhood Week,"* Pastor Douds invited a Negro minister, the Rev. Edward Graham, to preach from his pulpit...
...this age of Hollywood blood-and-thunder war movies, all of which preach some sort of a hackneyed message, there is nothing more refreshing than to see a brilliant war film like the twelve year-old "Grand Illusion." Starring Erich von Stroheim and Jean Gabin, this old-French epic concerns the fate of a group of French prisoners in Germany during the first World...
...office. His father not only tolerates his assistant's political activities, but once referred to them as "the work which the rector himself would have done had he been 20 years younger." When such work included inviting England's celebrated "Red Dean" of Canterbury to preach at Holy Trinity, anti-Melish parishioners were not reassured...
...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...