Word: sunday
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Togliatti. Over half its 10,000 people (many of them unemployed, some dwelling in caves) support the Communists. Yet they are married in the church, have their children baptized, and are buried with a priest blessing the grave and a banner-bearing Communist official paying pompous graveside respects. Last Sunday an old woman peddling the Communist paper L'Unitá was surprised when asked what she and her fellow Communists would do about the church. "Why, I've already been this morning," she said...
...Sunday, Father Giovanni read the excommunication decree from the pulpit. "What this means," he explained, "is that if you approve of Communism, you'll be banned from the church. We cannot give you the sacraments. This is only a religious measure . . . We are defending our church. Only that. Do you understand...
...churches last Sunday Czech priests read a defiant resolution, proclaiming their loyalty to Archbishop Beran and Pius XII. "We are certain," the resolution declared, "that all conscientious and faithful Catholics agree with us and that they would so testify if they were given the opportunity of free speech...
...dockers' stubbornness, there was little bitterness, no violence. Along winding narrow streets sunk deep between black warehouses, strikers with Sunday-slick hair ambled peacefully in a Sabbath-like quiet. Few trucks moved. Pickets applauded a truckload of soldiers who passed singing "Life gets teejus, don't it?" On the quayside where the soldiers were unloading ships, a striking foreman saw a cargo net threatening a young guardsman, cried out: "Mind there, son." He turned to a friend, said: "I wish those boys wouldn't take chances. They treat it like a big game...
Montreal, sometimes described as "the only town in Canada that stays open on Sunday," seemed more like its old gusty, uncorseted self last week. Gambling, fast women and lively entertainment had returned to "Little Paris...