Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every knight of St. John swears to "protect women, the orphans, and the weak," and must possess a name untouched by scandal. Last week, in Berlin, there was inaugurated as Grand Master of the Order of St. John a gentleman whose virtue is unsmirched, Prince Oscar Charles Gustav-Adolf von Hohenzollern, 38, fifth son of onetime King and Emperor Wilhelm...
Even so, the Order of St. John did not depose its Grand Master upon such flimsy, hearsay tittle-tattle. At last, in 1926, Princess Charlotte divorced her husband, charging that he had caused her "mental anguish." Presumably this violated his oath to "protect women . . . and weak." A conclave of 'the Order of St. John met secretly, accepted the resignation of Prince Eitel-Friedrich as Grand Master, then declared him "an honorary Knight of St. John...
...acts which are as natural as eating and drinking. Indeed, youth often decides on the basis of expediency or worthwhileness, whether sexual intercourse should be indulged in, never thinking of any after effects, because they believe there will be none. They see no harm in it-science will protect them; and science generally does. . . . Whatever we may think of such conduct, the thing for us to notice is that it does exist, and that largely because of scientific knowledge many people are finding reasonable justification for doing things they never would have thought of a generation...
...merely raising the question to show that whatever the Church urges, it should attempt to know in which direction is the greatest upward development. Or again, if to sanctify unmarried unions would do away, as some urge it would, with promiscuity and the double standard, and better protect the children of legal marriages, then to keep on fussing with rules about divorce, and the idea that all marriages are made in heaven is utter folly. . . . Such sanctification all of us are probably not willing to concede. But there are some scientific discoveries which the Church should concede and urge...
Still conscious, with only his right leg broken, Mr. Pruden told the two policemen who picked him up: "Listen boys, I came down here to see if the Lord would look after me. I expected Him to protect me. But He didn't. You can see that for yourselves. . . . Still I'm not faultin' Him. He did pretty well to keep me alive...