Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nick Comfort, Dean of Oklahoma School of Religion: "Many [religious leaders] are waiting for Jesus to come and put an end to the whole damned mess. When that happens they expect to be on the job to sing the doxology...
...quote Archbishop John Timothy McNicholas (TIME, March 5): "We wholeheartedly condemn bigotry in every form. . . . [But] the Catholic Church cannot give the impression that one religion is as good as another or that she must strive with those of other faiths for a common denominator in religion...
...Senate floor, the issue of religion, which has a way of backfiring, was touched only lightly. But new attacks on Williams as a leftist with no special qualifications for the job came from Mississippi's Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo, from Ohio's Taft, from South Dakota's Bushfield, many another...
Said another source: "The Holy See is accustomed to move slowly and cautiously. . . . The Church has no political motives, and time is no object, so long as true freedom of religion for all creeds in Russia and Russian-dominated areas is secured. The Vatican remains in a position of 'confident expectation...
...inquisitive mind. Cursed with insomnia, he would put himself to sleep by endless inventions of games, gadgets, toys, puzzles in mathematics; by day he would take a daily walk of 20 miles at top speed. At best, he would find release from "the sin of thinking for himself about religion" by turning his worries into innocent literary fantasies - such as the remarkable passage from his lesser-known children's book, Sylvie and Bruno...