Word: crucifix
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...damasked Hall of Congregations in the Vatican.* In his pocket was a Bank of Italy check for 750 million lire ($39,225,000) and a certificate for one billion lire ($52,300,000) of Italian State bonds. In the Hall of Congregations, standing beneath an exquisite ivory crucifix, Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, hands folded, waited to receive money and bonds and exchange formally with Signer Mussolini the State-&-Church reconciliation treaty signed by them both last February (TIME, Feb. 18). After a brief, courteous exchange of duplicate texts of the treaty, last of diplomatic formalities, the Papal State, recognized by Italy...
Good Catholic wives glanced at the crucifix on the wall, tried not to think of excommunicates...
...school boys and girls not merely non-religious but actively and passionately antireligious. . . . "The home influence of religious parents must be vigorously combated. . . . Skill and persuasion must be used. I do not approve the overzealous methods of some school teachers who make a practice of tearing off every crucifix which they espy on a child's neck. . . . Such methods are not efficacious. ... I also doubt the wis dom of instructing advanced classes in anti-religion by the method of dissecting before them the remains of so-called saints or other fetishes. The shock with which such demonstrations impinge upon...
...courts open. Similarly it was timed last week in Manhattan. Many a non-Catholic barrister sat with the kneeling Catholic Lawyers' Guild,* heard words of good counsel from Jesuit Paul L. Blakeley, listened to Patrick Cardinal Hayes. Said Cardinal Hayes: "In Catholic countries the great Crucifix is suspended high?it is impressive. It speaks?every wound in the body of Christ speaks, appeals to judge and to advocate, and also pours out mercy upon the guilty. And while we cannot have that symbol in our courts in our own beloved land, at the same time every Catholic lawyer ought...
...heroism of priests surpassed the way in which Father Dubuc had conducted himself at the end of his picnic. After the explosion, said Albert La Frenière, Father Dubuc stood up in the stern of the boat and, while his clothes blazed brightly, lifted his crucifix and granted absolution to the five who were with him. Having recited the ritual of his church, he said to his guests, "There is nothing else to do. We must jump into the water." Later, when the body of Father Dubuc was found, it was discovered that the first flash of the explosion...