Word: priestly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thus bamboozling Germans, according to the Evangelical Manifesto, Nazi spellbinders use the terms positive and negative Christianity "in the manner in which the truth is withheld from a person who is ill"-i. e., to mask the Government's real efforts "to deChristianize the German people." National Priest. After quoting Nazi Party leaders at length, the Manifesto concludes: "When, within the compass of the Nazi view of life, an anti-Semitism is forced on the Christian that binds him to hatred of the Jew, the Christian injunction to love one's neighbor still stands. . . . The Evangelical conscience...
...money changers have not been driven from the temple," declared Radio-priest Charles Edward Coughlin last week in his letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt apologizing for having called the President of the U. S. a liar. If Father Coughlin were statistically-minded, he could have buttressed his assertion with a list of the busiest U. S. banking houses in the first six months of this year, as compiled last week by the Wall Street Journal. The figures were less impressive than they used to be because security registration statements now reveal the actual amount underwritten by each house. Formerly...
...rehearsing his familiar indictments of the Federal Reserve Banks and the "money changers." he stepped up-as Adolf Hitler does-his speed and volume. By the time he reached President Roosevelt's failure to keep his inaugural promise to drive the money changers from the temple, the Priest was sweating as freely as had Preacher Smith...
...only to God. Some years ago the Führer objected to having his picture placed on Protestant altars. Today his thoughts are used as a basis not only for political decisions but also for morality and law. He himself is surrounded with the dignity of a priest and even of an intermediary between God and man. . . . We ask that liberty may be given our people to go their way in the future under the sign of the Cross of Christ, in order that our grandsons may not curse their elders on the ground that their elders left them...
While at least one priest joined in the picture-taking, the 21 postulants, brides-to-be of Christ, entered the chapel wearing white gowns, white-blossomed veils and carrying candles. In the sanctuary one by one they knelt, begging Bishop Thomas J. Walsh of Newark to admit them to the religious community. From each dark head full-fledged nuns removed the white veil. The Bishop substituted the shiny black sunbonnet-like headdress of the Maestre Pie. Now a novice, each girl walked back from the sanctuary in the black habit which she expects to wear for the rest...