Word: sinse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Sins of the Father. Three years after the boys' exile began, their mother died and they were left to the mercies of maternal relatives and legal guardians whose only thought for them lay in an occasional reminder of their black parentage. The only word they were ever told...
"Movements may be as formless as a shifting fog, as destructive as a stream of lava, as senseless as a panic-stricken mob, as regimented to evil ends as Naziism, as suicidal as the movements of the Gadarene swine. The ecumenical movement is a movement of free men all in...
1) Miracle seekers. Example: a Negro woman with cancer of the breast who covered herself with a "prayer cloth" each day for six months before seeking medical care. Now near death, she "believes that the failure of the prayer cloth was due to her sins." 2) The uninformed. One businessman...
Sacred Ponds. In India, which the shadow reached just before sundown, came a kind of climax. For hours before the eclipse, orthodox Hindus had fasted, lest the food in their stomachs be polluted before it could be digested. Pregnant women hid in dark closets. At the sacred ponds of Kurukshetra...
Miniature Church. It was only 18 years ago that the Rev. Edgar Schmiedeler of Washington, D.C., a Benedictine priest, transplanted the custom from Europe. Father Schmiedeler, 61, director of the Family Life Bureau for the National Catholic Welfare Conference, saw in the man & wife retreat a promising way to foster...