Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months and since Jan. 1 of this year has not possessed the faculties of this archdiocese." In plainer words, Father Feeney had been denied the right to preach or hear confessions. Last week Archbishop Gushing further decreed that Father Feeney could perform no priestly functions, e.g., saying Mass, teaching religion. He also forbade any Roman Catholic to visit or assist in the activities of Feeney's G.H.Q. -St. Benedict Center on Cambridge's Arrow Street...
...Luther Error. Theologian Niebuhr says that Historian Arnold Toynbee's monumental effort to discover the pattern of history "belongs to one of the most impressive intellectual ventures of our age." But he does not hold with Toynbee's daring hypothesis that religion may be advancing onward & upward with the rise & fall of civilizations (TIME, April...
Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity, will address the Appleton Club on "The Social Implications of Religion" at 7 p.m. tonight in Adams House Upper Common Room. Cadbury is the chairman of the American Friends Service Committee, and the author of several books on the New Testament and early Christianity...
Certain Protestant groups in this country have a good case when they argue that Hollywood seems to recognize only one religion, and that one is the Roman Catholic. "The Song of Bernadette,' and "Goig My Way" both won many awards and, because of their "religious" nature, were of great prestige value to the Academy and ammunition in their eternal war with moralist groups. This past year, the Academy in its first recognition of foreign-language films, gave its "Oscar" to "Monsieur Vincent," a film dealing with the struggles of a Roman Catholic saint, by-passing one of the finest films...
...acquired no facilities for arriving at judgments social or artistic and he is apparently without religion of any kind." His sister Mary is no better, nor are his parents. They, too, are adolescent, "not free men and women but base mechanicals . . . the products and patrons of mass management ... of a standardized press and radio, of slick magazines and book clubs, of an overly vocationalized education, of pressure salesmanship...