Word: antichurch
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...sometimes short, faith and courage seldom are. In 1961, San Francisco-born Mother Genevieve McGloin of the Sacred Heart of Jesus order got a $100,000 donation from Bos ton's Richard Cardinal Cushing, and started a woman's college in Uruguay a country so bleakly antichurch that the feast of the Epiphany is celebrated as children's day, Christmas as family day and Easter as family week. Today, Mother McGloin's 18-man faculty includes three with doctorates and eight instructors with the equivalent of master's degrees...
When Tito came to power, Archbishop Stepinac denounced his antichurch materialism and his political tyranny, drew a 17-day jail sentence in 1945. Curious about such a stubborn prelate, Tito summoned him and saw at once what he was up against. He tried to avoid a showdown with this sallow, unsmiling man. "I do not want steps taken against Stepinac," he is reported to have said afterward. "He has a martyr complex." But the outspoken archbishop was getting to be too much of a hero; people began to kneel as he passed on his daily walks through Zagreb...
...shocked at first by Berlin's flatness, but he soon found his east (60%)-west (40%) diocese as stimulating as a spur of the Alps. He has battled incessantly against the "youth dedication" ceremonies the Communists have been trying to substitute for Christian confirmation, and against the growing antichurch pressure of the East German regime. Last summer he played host at an all-German Katholikentag, which brought some 150,000 Catholics from both sides of the barrier together in West Berlin's Olympic Stadium. At the closing ceremonies he shouted his farewell message: "We will stay together...