Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the Protestant Episcopal Church is more snobbish than religious. Last week a few insiders made the same charge. In the Episcopal weekly, The Living Church, 100 Episcopal chaplains who have been working with servicemen complained that almost no group in the armed forces is as lacking in real religion as Episcopalians. Specifically, the chaplains reported...
Chaplain Dubois warned his church that it must mend its educational ways, for returning servicemen will have "little patience with half measures or compromises. . . . They will be ... men who have learned discipline and know sacrifice. To those who return, religion will be all or nothing. . . . [But] if [their] zeal and enthusiasm ... is properly directed, they will be the finest group of men the church has ever had as leaders...
Originally acclaimed as a spectacle to match "King of Kings," the DeMille production is a melange of religion, sex, and mob scenes. It is slow-moving and stagy, but a lot of people will love it for its bacchanals, its armor-clanking, its Christian-eating lions, and its mob scenes...
...Christmas he invited 60 of them to dinner, gave them firemen's helmets and cowboy hats. If anybody needed coal, money or clothes for their children, jovial Father Norman was glad to provide them. After ten years the neighborhood came to feel that the Mission-whatever its religion-was a solid institution...
...religious freedom for the 84 million Catholics (Vatican figures) in Russian-dominated territory. The Church has been left strictly alone irf Poland, even in the property-sharing schemes of the Lublin Government. Such a policy, while helping to dispel the general belief that Bolshevism is the enemy of religion, would unquestionably make it much easier for Russia to expand its spheres of influence...