Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lacks his brother's easy grace; he is earthier, bristling in his loyalties (the U.S., Jack, and his church; other Kennedys; other Democrats), implacable in his enmities. Jack has been called the first Irish Brahmin; Bobby is the Irish Puritan, not an ascetic but a man of burning zeal. If he does not want to become President, it is safe to say that he wants his brother to become a great President, assisted by a great Attorney General. Meanwhile, as President John Kennedy of the U.S. had long known, as the U.S. has come to realize, as the peoples...
Father Riccardo Lombardi, S.J., is a kind of modern-day Savonarola. In Italy between 1946 and 1956, the fervent little Jesuit, who was popularly known as "God's microphone," drew crowds of 300,000 and more for fiery lectures that urged rich and poor alike to recapture the zeal of early Christians if they would save the world from Communism. In 1955, he set up an ambitious Better World Institute on Lake Albano, near Rome, as a center for Christian studies of social reform. During its first three years, while his friend and protector Pope Pius XII was alive...
...Protest Against Pomposity. Father Lombardi's zeal for Christian reform was reawakened last year by Pope John's call for Vatican Council II, the great gathering of Catholic prelates set for late this year. Collecting his own views on what the council should do, Lombardi last December published a book called Council: For a Reform of Charity. He personally presented a copy to Pope John. It proved to be a blistering attack on the fusty habits of Catholic bishops and Vatican bureaucrats. Likening the church to "an old building constructed many centuries ago," Lombardi insisted that it must...
...Saints have been cultivating souls in Britain for more than a century. In 1837 Mormon Founder Joseph Smith dispatched seven missionaries to England-a venture that possibly saved the church from extinction. Working with the zeal of early Christians, the Mormons made 77,000 converts in two decades, sent most of their newly baptized off as emigrants to the U.S., where they were needed for the pioneer job of settling Utah. But by the turn of the century, conversions in Britain numbered only about 300 a year, and things stayed that way until By Woodbury went to England...
Selflessness & Zeal. Woodbury's ascetic missionaries-they neither smoke nor drink tea. coffee or liquor-are generally , admired by rival churchmen for their selflessness and zeal. British clergymen are less keen on Woodbury's hard-sell style of making converts. Last year the Church of England assembly labeled Mormon missionaries "undesirables," and the Anglican student chaplain at the University of Durham recently criticized the "well-meant but overzealous attempts of overeager Mormon missionaries...