Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIMES FAINTHEARTED MEN SURRENDER TO THE ILLUSORY COMFORT OF THE STRONG ARM, EVEN IF CLAD IN ALB AND CHASUBLE. THE REV. MR. KERNAN'S SURRENDER AFTER 26 YEARS IS SYMBOLIC OF A TRUTH WHICH PROPONENTS OF FREEDOM HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN-NAMELY THIS: IT IS EASIER TO THINK AND WORSHIP FOR PEOPLE THAN IT IS WITH THEM. MR. KERNAN'S NEAR CONTEMPT ' FOR THE LAITY INDICATES QUITE CLEARLY THAT HIS OWN PRIESTHOOD IS LACKING IN THOSE VIRTUES FOR WHICH HIS ORDINATION VOWS CALLED 26 YEARS AGO. HIS PLACE AMONG THE DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM UNDER LAW WILL BE VACANT...
...between occupation and partnership. It leaves the precious Saar in French hands for now; it "petrifies the division of Germany." The German yearning for the reunion of East and West Germany is common to all Germans, from those who long for Adolf Hitler's resurrection to those who worship the ikons of Stalinism. But Kurt Schumacher has made it his chief political issue...
...Disciples of Christ (membership: 1,900,000) and the Northern Baptists of the American Baptist Convention (membership: 1,600,000) feel especially close; in some areas of the U.S., Baptist and Disciples congregations worship together in a single church. Last week in Chicago, the two denominations held their annual conventions simultaneously for the first time -though in different parts of the city. Three joint meetings for "fellowship and inspiration" were included in the agenda...
...about the Republican Party here tonight," he went on, "I mean the dinosaur wing of the Republican Party-which unfortunately seems to be in control of that party. They are living in 1896 and 1920. They're made up of the Republicans of 1896 and 1920. And they worship William McKinley and Warren G. Harding . . . Even if the Republicans get a presidential candidate with a good record in foreign affairs, he will not be able to drown out the raucous isolationist outcries of the rest of the party...
...taken a specifically political form, so that the characteristic experience of the mind in this age is a political experience. At every point, religion and politics interlace, and must do so more acutely as the conflict between the two great camps of men-those who reject and those who worship God-becomes irrepressible. Those camps are not only outside, but also within nations...