Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strong Nations Only. But mostly the Aglipayans stuck to a kind of Popeless Catholicism in matters of faith and worship. By the time war broke out in 1941, membership had fallen to 1,500,000, served by about 340 priests, 50 student priests, 20,000 deaconesses. Supreme Bishop Santiago Fonacier, Aglipay's successor, elected to play ball enthusiastically with the Japanese occupying forces. As a result, he was ousted by the General Assembly in 1946, and eight months later Bishop Reyes was elected Supreme Bishop...
Church in Paris in the '80s was a family affair and people took their denominational differences more seriously. "[Today] we have the strange spectacle . . . of people refusing to worship together, while not knowing just why . . . [In the old days] the tobacco chewers always did their spitting at sermon climaxes, the juice hitting the floor with a resounding smack as a sort of substitute for a cheer...
...with only two Catholics in its membership, passed it 137 to 15. The Senate followed suit, 36 to 7. For 20 years (1848-67) the U.S. maintained a Minister to the Papal States, but the mission was discontinued largely because of difficulty in arranging for U.S. Protestant members to worship within the walls of the Holy City...
...Judaism seems to be experiencing a powerful revival. Synagogues and seminaries are expanding, congregation membership and attendance figures are rising, and more & more young faces are turning up at Sabbath worship. But according to Jewish free-lance scholar Will Herberg, Jews should not mistake these facts as signs of a religious awakening. After six months of study and interviews on the subject, Herberg has concluded that the revival must ground itself in religion or it will not amount to much...
...Paris, takes up with a chanteuse (Micheline Prelle) and buys his own horse to ride. He looks like a cinch to win the Big Race until vengeful Gambler Adler demands that he lose it or pay off with his life. But the jockey's son, whose hero worship has barely survived a touch of disillusionment, is counting on him to win. In this kind of situation, even a cad can work up enough nobility to keep a little boy's heart unbroken...