Word: romane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roman J. Halla, 23, arrived in the U.S. a few weeks ago after a year spent as a D.P. in Germany, where he worked as an interpreter for the U.S. Army while waiting for his chance to come here. When the Communists took over Czechoslovakia, Halla was a student at Prague's famed, freedom-loving Charles University, from which he was promptly expelled for demonstrating with other students against the new Communist regime. At this juncture, foreign publications, including TIME, were admitted to the country but never reached the newsstands. Halla believed the bundles were destroyed when they reached...
...regrettable that Father Murray refuses to answer in a serious manner the expressed dangers to traditional American ideals posed by the Roman Catholic Church . . . Romanism at present is bearing the brunt of Communistic attacks against religion, and is needing the aid and sympathy of all Christian people...
Father Murray's contention that the Roman Church is the one true church of Christ may sound like a neigh to his ears, but to most Americans it has the sound of a bray...
...have been stationed permanently by the altar rails of St. Peter's in Rome, armed with rakes to scrape up the gold, silver and precious stones which pilgrims threw upon the altar steps. Then, as soon as the pilgrims' spiritual obligations had been taken care of, the Roman citizenry joined gleefully in the ancient custom of taking the pilgrims to the cleaners. In those days, hawkers sold enough "pieces of the True Cross" to build a small village...
...Protestantism alone to blame for the split between the two branches of Christendom? In the current issue of the Catholic liturgical monthly, Orate Fratres, the Rev. Joseph Lortz, professor of church history at Germany's Münster University in Westphalia, declares that Roman Catholicism must share the guilt...