Word: schisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This prayer for a united Christendom was repeated last week by Pope Pius XII. With the same prayer the Council of Trent in 1563 had closed its 18-year deliberations to combat the schism born of Martin Luther's theses nailed to the church door at Wittenberg. The Council failed to bring Protestant heretics back to the fold...
Russia. "The impression I brought back from the Crimea is that Marshal Stalin and the other Soviet leaders wish to live in honorable friendship and democracy with the western democracies. . . . Terrible indeed would be the fortunes of mankind if some awful schism arose between the western democracies and the Russian people...
...great Protestant "doctrine of private judgment," vital to the freedom of the individual Christian, often turned into personal despotism and religious schism, until, as a Vermont farmer said, "each generation grew wiser and weaker...
...Moscow that the Nazis are using Russian Orthodox prelates in Occupied Russia, that the clerics set up an autonomous church, have expressed "admiration" for Adolf Hitler's "heroic struggle," pray "to the All Highest to bless Axis arms with victory." In unoccupied Russia the loyal church denounced the schism, promised expulsion of the renegades...
...bottle of Scotch. Then they turned to seeking a settlement that would patch up the break for the duration. On the urgency and merits of this issue, the U.S. State Department and No. 10 Downing Street were in complete accord: nothing must be allowed to create a final schism between Russia and the Anglo-American coalition; yet, if possible, the Polish Government and the postwar integrity of Poland had to be preserved...