Word: virginities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a wise man speaks one sentence in a thousand is meat for hungry newsgatherers. Last week, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, eminent Baptist divine,* spoke at length in the Town Hall, Manhattan, on "Religion and the Modern Mind," landed in newspaper headlines with two sentences on the Virgin Mary...
...spoke of the Catholic conception of the Blessed Virgin, his admiration of the special love which millions bear to her, he shocked orthodox Protestants. Said he: "I cannot but believe that my Roman Catholic brethren have the right idea. With my Protestant background I would hesitate to kneel before a statue of the Virgin in public, but worse things than that have been done on this earth...
...Protestants, to whom veneration of Mary, the mother of Jesus, is nothing short of idolatry, were shocked; Roman Catholics, firm in their faith in Mary, Queen in heaven of the hierarchy of saints, might have answered as before: "Outsiders can never understand our faith, our veneration of the Blessed Virgin...
...guardian. Later, the annunciation took place; when Mary's pregnancy was discovered, she and Joseph were brought before the High Priest protesting their innocence of earthly wrong. They were tried with "the water of the ordeal of the Lord," were acquitted. In Catholic dogma, Mary remained a virgin before, after and during the conception and birth of Christ.* Again, her perpetual virginity, maintained by the Roman Catholic Church, was not the general belief of early Christian writers, who held that Mary and Joseph were the parents of other children, notably James the Less and John...
...prayed to the sainted martyrs, because they by their immediate ascension to heaven were better fitted to intervene with God, were closer to mere mortals than an awesome Lord. Then, gradually through the centuries, Mary-worship grew. In the catacombs, hunted and persecuted Christians scrawled pictures of the Virgin on the walls (150 A. D.,); it began truly to flourish in the Eastern Church about the 6th Century A. D.?? But it met with continued rebuke, as when the Collyridians were denounced by St. Epiphanius for making sacrificial offerings of cakes to Mary. He said: "Let Mary...