Word: sainte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...translations. He was a self-appointed guardian of the church's orthodoxy. From Bethlehem he thundered against the hairsplitting heresies of the time with the mordancy of a theological Leo Durocher. When Jerome's onetime friend Rufinus died, after a long theological quarrel with him, the saint wrote: "Now that the scorpion lies buried . . . and the hydra with its numerous heads has ceased its hissing against us, and time is given for other things than answering the iniquities of heretics . . . I will tackle the Prophet Ezekiel...
...kind and inspiring to his spiritual charges. But he was uncompromising about the monastic rules, and had little patience with those who found them too severe. Writes Paulist Father Eugene Burke: "He never lost sight of the fact that the vocation of a Christian is to be a saint...
Mother & Mankind. Walter Pater tried to pierce her veils with a poetic sigh: "She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times . . . and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands...
Quietly her 1,700-man crew, to whom Korea's war at sea has become a businesslike and boring routine of daily shelling, went to general quarters. Earsplitting salvos reverberated all morning and afternoon as the Saint Paul's 5-and 8-in. guns plastered Communist shore installations. The blast came at 3:55 p.m. Suddenly the cruiser lurched like a hooked marlin, rattling from stem to stern. Not enemy action but a gunpowder fire of undetermined origin had set off a blast in one of the Saint Paul's forward eight-inch turrets. Damage-control teams...
Stace rejects any literal interpretation of religious belief: "The devil* laughs with joy when he finds that the saint takes his beliefs to be facts, because he knows that he has then an easy prey." His reasoning, which sometimes runs through pretty deep water, is that an Infinite God can have no connection with the natural order of things, since everything in the universe or connected with it must by definition have some limitations of time or space...