Word: romane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Immediately after the final judgment as to Christ's guilt, Roman soldiers ordered a smith to forge four nails for the crucifixion, one for each hand and foot...
...Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. is not standing still. The 1948 Official Catholic Directory, published last week, showed that the number of U.S.† Catholics increased 807,524 during 1947. Total of U.S. Roman Catholics (according to the Directory): 26,075,697. The hierarchy was augmented by 25 new bishops (new total: 178). The priesthood grew by 1,277 to 41,747. Catholic colleges more than doubled their enrollment during the last two years-from 102,655 to 220,226. And the number of converts to Catholicism was record-breaking...
...good Catholic would attribute such statistics to the grace of God. But to make its members serve as instruments of God's grace, the Roman Catholic Church enjoins strict attention to hard work and know-how. A testament to both is a recently published compendium of the most successful proselyting techniques-Winning Converts (P. J. Kenedy & Sons; $3). Edited by the Rev. John A. O'Brien of the University of Notre Dame, it may give many a pointer to evangelizing Protestants as well as to Catholic priests and laymen...
Conversion by Mail. One of the experts quoted is the famed mail-order priest, Father Lester J. Fallon, whose correspondence courses of instruction in the Roman Catholic faith signed up 38,000 servicemen during the war. Father Fallon, who calls his technique "Getting Them Up on the Rectory Porch," points out that many a potential convert is embarrassed at approaching a priest, and would rather read about Catholicism at home before ringing the rectory doorbell. Paid advertising in newspapers and magazines is the best method of reaching such prospects, says Father Fallon...
...typical Waugh mood, bright, pardlike and impermeable, had been clouded by a sweat of nostalgic and religious dither. Worse still, Brideshead was the first of Waugh's novels to become a U.S. bestseller. His fans had reluctantly winked at the fact that he is a conservative and a Roman Catholic convert. But popular? No literary cult can tolerate popularity in its prey. The boys were preparing to dump Evelyn...