Word: romane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, but gypsy legend claims that when Mary Magdalene, Mary Salome and Mary the mother of James the Less fled persecution in Judea and crossed the Mediterranean, a gypsy called Sarah received them and became their servant...
Small, twinkle-eyed George Antonio Laberge of Rhode Island is the only American Roman Catholic priest in Moscow.* In a country where the ruling party requires its members to be militantly atheistic, any man who wears a Roman collar sometimes has to fend attacks on his clerical dignity...
...early books were critical and popular failures (one sold ten copies in ten years). Gide wrote in his Journals: "I do not know where I am going; but I am making progress." His progress was imperceptible to other eyes. Critics lambasted everything he wrote; to French Roman Catholics, his Corydon, a frank defense of homosexuality, was the devil's own mischief...
Gide spends many pages of the Journals trying to prove that the Church has become an obstacle between Christ and man. As for spiritual solace, each man, he thinks, must find it within himself, in his own way and in his own time. To converted Roman Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain, who once asked him to pray for Christ's guidance, Gide replied: "Understand me, Maritain, I have lived too long and too intimately, and you know it, in the thought of Christ to agree to call on him today as one rings someone up on the telephone. Indeed...
...Wicked Old Man." Many of Gide's friends have been converted to Roman Catholicism, but Gide embraced another faith. In 1932, he announced that Communism was man's hope. He was promptly hailed by fellow travelers as the world's greatest writer. Then, in 1936, Gide and a party of friends were invited by the Soviet government to Russia. While thousands looked on, Gide stood in Moscow's Red Square with Stalin and Molotov (see cut), and delivered a funeral oration for Maxim Gorki. Almost overnight, Gide, the longtime champion of individualism, became the literary hero...