Word: worship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...survey of America as a Civilization. The unavowed note of irony is that, like many a liberal-leftist prodigal son of the age, Lerner, who regularly scoffed at the U.S. in the '30s and '40s as a house of cards, now treats it as a house of worship...
...their influence. Their wealth, plus polygamy, enables them to win many young Catholic girls." Bishop Kiwanuka's second biggest problem: African nationalism, which is apt to view Christianity as a white man's weapon. The nationalist Bataka Party has sponsored an organized reversion to tribal forms of worship. Under Bishop Kiwanuka's leadership, 62,503 converts have joined his flock. "Even the young girls seduced into Moslem homes usually cling to their Catholic faith," he says. "At least they die as Catholics...
...house was not always Gothic; the soaring arch and ribbed vault were daring innovations in the 12th century. The lights and lines of the church interiors shown on the following pages may be as revolutionary as Gothic architecture once was, may seem distractingly unchurchly to worshipers for whom religion and tradition go necessarily hand in hand. But each day's worship-and each generation's-also has an immediate, here-and-now quality; all over Europe new churches are going up that are inspired by this immediacy of religious faith. Their builders, like modern U.S. church architects (TIME...
Yugoslav Communist, now in a Tito prison, decides after a lifetime of Marx worship that the commissars have done a wretched job, run prison camps instead of states and are far more greedy materialists than the capitalists. Certainly nothing new, but significant coming from Tito's ex-buddy...
Siegfried Schmutzler did not hesitate to speak out loud and clear against the rites of Youth Dedication to the State with which Communism is trying to drive out the Christian custom of confirmation in the church. For preaching against any work on Sunday that conflicted with the hours of worship Pastor Schmutzler was jailed on charges of "sabotaging the five-year plan...