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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speech in Rochester, N.Y. to some 1,200 people. She pleaded with her onetime Red comrades to "come out," and urged her listeners to "be patient" with them when they did: "Sometimes the greatest sinners make the greatest saints." Earlier she had told the press about her conversion to Roman Catholicism. In a way, she supposed, it was inevitable: "People who are genuine Communists, as I was, aren't the lukewarm type. They can't go into a vacuum if they give up Communism. They must have something...
Many Protestants are unaware of it, but the infallibility of the Pope has never once been officially exercised since the doctrine was defined by the Vatican Council in 1870.* This week, the vast machinery of the Roman Catholic Church seemed almost ready to proclaim, by papal infallibility, a new dogma which all true Catholics would be required to believe: that upon the death of the Virgin, her body was taken up directly into Heaven...
Students at New York City's Roman Catholic Fordham University last fortnight had the opportunity to study a little-known painting of the Assumption, Botticini's Vision of St. Thomas*, lent to the University by Princess
...certainly wasn't De Sabata's first program that lured the critics. There was only one new work, a viciously dissonant and twisting symphonic poem, Marinaresca e Baccanale, by a little known Italian contemporary named Giorgio Federico Ghedini. The others-Berlioz' blood & thunder Roman Carnival Overture, Franck's D Minor Symphony and Ravel's Bolero-were the kind of overly familiar music that delights most audiences and drugs most critics...
...Oxford's Trinity College. He seemed to be having a wonderful time-preaching, talking, and turning out books. But his soul was not at peace. "Authority played a large part in my belief," he later explained. In September 1917, after resigning his Oxford chaplaincy, he joined the Roman Catholic Church...