Word: virginity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dwight Fiske ditty that holds that "caviar comes from virgin sturgeon" is biologically misleading. Since sturgeon eggs are fertilized externally, after they have been released by egg-bearing females, all female sturgeons are virgins, by mammalian standards, whether or not they have produced caviar...
Thus the Catholic vision of Mary, says Burghardt, strangles ecumenical dialogue. "She is for the Protestant the visible symbol of Catholic idolatry, the Roman abandonment of Scripture, of the history of Christ. Divine Maternity and Perpetual Virginity and Immaculate Conception and a glorious Assumption-these are already stones of stumbling. But the end is not yet. It may soon be defined as part and parcel of God's public revelation that in union with her son the Virgin redeemed the world...
Changing Faces. In Kazakhstan, key to Khrushchev's grandiose scheme to plant grain in the virgin lands southeast of the Urals, the visitor from Moscow angrily changed faces, interrupted a regional party leader who reported that the grain harvest had been "reduced" this year by shouting: "That would be expressing yourself mildly. You did not reduce it, you wrecked...
Roman Catholics venerate the Virgin Mary as the mother of Christ and the Queen of Heaven, second only to the Trinity. But her husband, Joseph, who apparently died before Christ began his ministry, is a forgotten man, fleetingly celebrated as a good carpenter and notably understanding husband. Though the Gospel of Matthew accords Joseph rather than Mary the honor of hearing the Annunciation from the angel of the Lord, St. Joseph is not even named in the liturgy of the Mass, which so honors 27 other saints. Last week a widespread campaign was under way to remedy this omission; sent...
...Family Man. Sparkplug of this international campaign is a Jesuit theologian, Francis Lad Filas, 46, chairman of the theology department at Chicago's Loyola University. One day in 1937, Filas stumbled on an ancient German treatise on St. Joseph, and was attracted to the Virgin's husband as "an obscure underdog who didn't deserve the treatment he had received in history." In 1944 he published his first book on Joseph, The Man Nearest to Christ, and books, pamphlets, lectures and magazine articles on the saint have been pouring out of his typewriter ever since. Jesuit Filas...