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Next day in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, Archbishop Francis J. Spellman departed from the text of his sermon to denounce the statement as an i"insult to 25,000,000 fellow-Americans" He called the signers "selfstyled superpatriots [who] do disservice to their country and violate the Golden Rule...
After the great race, Dodds hardly heard the barrage of congratulations. "I must catch a train," he said, "I'm really excited - I'm to preach a sermon tomorrow at Goshen, Ind." Now, the man who prefers gospel teaching to mile records joins Torrey Johnson's Evangelistic group in Los Angeles - the town where another dashing character won lasting fame as an evangelist: the late, white-robed Aimee Semple McPherson...
Then suddenly, in February 1942, 54-year-old Dean Fjellbu was fed up. Calmly, and with certain knowledge of the consequences, he preached a defiant anti-Nazi sermon (TIME, Dec. 25). For over a year the quisling police kept him under house arrest, then banished him with his family to the Lofoten Islands...
...name day of Pedro de Vargas in Jaén in Old Spain. It is also the opening date of one of the most torrid, non-stop adventure stories since Anthony Adverse. Captain from Castile begins with Pedro going to confession (he had slept through the Bishop's sermon, and kissed Catana Pérez). The book ends, 633 pages later, with Pedro's bride being prepared by her mother-in-law for the nuptial bed ("And breasts so haughty! . . . Such a figure, too; skin like marble. ... I don't wonder he's mad about...
Within the church Arne Fjellbu preached his last sermon to the few who had come in before the police arrived. His text: the words of Peter to Jesus, "We have forsaken all, and followed thee." For the churchmen of Norway, the words were prophetic...