Word: saint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every year to make their confessions to Padre Pio and to receive his blessing. A devout and humble man, living quietly in a monastery in southern Italy, he has helped thousands on their spiritual journey. Yet the church continually cautions that he is not to be regarded as a saint. Last week the Congregation of the Holy Office put eight books written about Padre Pio on the church's Index of Forbidden Books. Reason: they attributed unverified miraculous powers to a man still living...
...wish there were a great saint in the United States, Dominican and Negro, a saint such as St. Francis of Assisi who could inspire a whole generation of youth and create in this country spiritual forms as universally intelligible as the music of Harlem: sainthood in blue...
...July 25 was chosen as "Commonwealth Day" because Puerto Rico had observed that date throughout much of its history: under Spanish rule, as the day dedicated to St. James, Spain's patron saint; later, as the anniversary of the landing of a 3,415-man U.S. liberation force under Major General Nelson A. Miles...
...define, because no U.S. official can officially define what is sacred. Last week two other censors banned The Miracle on other grounds. Ohio took exception to the film for purely moral reasons. Citing the seduction of the idiot girl by a shepherd whom she believes to be her special saint, it called the picture "basically immorar' and charged it with condoning "indecent behavior." Chicago's police board of censors banned the film for a direct violation of law: a city ordinance designed to protect any religious group from ridicule...
...Ardito is deplored, detested, vilified. But he is also adored: even anticlerical partisans call him "the saint." The flaw in his character is that he is so intent upon his crusade that he cannot pause to deal with individual problems. Even as he climbs to fame as a preacher, he shrinks as a human being; he cannot give simple love to those who need it from...