Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reverend Mr. Thomas L. Harris '22, former Advisor on Religion at Harvard from 1931-33, and at present rector of the Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany, Philadelphia, will return to Harvard today to conduct this week's services in the Memorial Church...
This was plainly impossible as President Lazaro Cardenas, another pure-blooded Indian, promptly pointed out. The Government, he told newshawks, was not persecuting anybody because of his religion. It was only enforcing the laws against the Church...
...Catholic Government employes who, as members of the National Revolutionary Party, sign documents denying the truth of revealed religion...
...directly answering his own question, Bishop Gailor continued: "The capitalistic, profit-motive machine system defeated itself." Then he offered his own solution: "The Christian religion has demonstrated its power to mould the social and political character of the world; but its real force is in working from within by influencing and transforming the individual human sou!. It is not a mere system of philanthropy. It is not a cure for social misery that can be applied from the outside; but ... it brings to each man and woman the message of redemption, and offers them a new nature and new life...
...deepest convictions into the mouths of dancing dogs, unwed mice and such philosophical creatures as Isaiah, the stoic horse of The Woodcutter's House. When he was not bringing wisdom out of the mouths of baby tumblebugs and suckling pigs, he was engaged in mild satires on religion (The Bishop's Wife, There Is Another Heaven). But Depression, if it did not quite succeed in bringing him down to solid earth, at least caused him to desert the seraphim and the kingdom of talking brutes. His first real commercial success, One More Spring, followed the fortunes...