Word: virgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Church of England Newspaper last week looked hard at Pope Pius XII's prayer to the Virgin Mary, composed for the opening of the Marian Year (TIME, Dec. 14), and found in it implications of "rank heresy...
Said the Church of England Newspaper: "This prayer transplants faith from Christ to the Virgin Mary . . . And what, we may legitimately ask. is left for the Holy Spirit? The Virgin Mary, apparently, displaces the Third Person of the Trinity as well as the Second...
Maureen O'Hara's performance is generally creditable, except for an over-long but traditional tear jerker sequence in front of a statue of the Virgin Mary. Miss O'Hara mars her efforts by relying on the same facial expressions she used when her lover left her in a previous movie, and her father's boat sank in the one before that...
...almost complete darkness, and at times the scene could as well be a parody of Dante's Inferno. The music too does not seem to fit the action in some places, a little too blaring when Captain Phoebus captures Quasimodo, a little too violiny when Esmeralda prays to the Virgin Mary...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Dr. Ernest William Barnes, 79, the Church of England's "bold, bad bishop" of Birmingham (until his retirement last May), who alarmed and angered his fellow churchmen for 29 years by publicly denouncing the doctrine of the virgin birth and the existence of Adam and Eve, advocating strict birth control, euthanasia, sterilization of "the unfit"; in Hurstpierpoint. England...