Word: christianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...were only two children to hang their stockings on the mantelpiece in the President's bedroom-Franklin III and Harry Hopkins' small daughter, Diana. It was the quietest Christmas since the first that the Roosevelts spent in the White House. The changed mood was like that of Christians all over the world-a mood based on the realization that the Christmas of 1940 was not merely a time of warm rituals, that the Christmas message of peace on earth and good will to men meant, to the Christian world, everything or nothing...
Canterbury's boys were taught apologetics and Christian ethics by their headmaster. They also prayed daily to the "Canterbury saints." During the severe influenza epidemic of 1918, they offered special prayers to St. Michael, escaped without a single case of the flu. The school later installed a $7,500 stained-glass window in honor of St. Michael and the "Canterbury saints." For his "outstanding work in Catholic education" Pope Pius XI two years ago made Dr. Hume a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great...
...North American Council of Churches" will carry on and correlate throughout the U. S. and Canada (with many a friendly contact elsewhere around the globe) the work now done by the boards to be merged into it. Its four main divisions will be departments on faith and life, Christian education, missions at home, abroad. No mere federation of federations, it will get its powers directly from its constituent churches...
Religious Education. "People must be taught what the facts are upon which Christian faith rests. The Church must give children and young people an environment in which they can grow up as Christians, and help its members everywhere to look at the problems of their lives in the light of their relation...
Flat as a pfennig has fallen the neo-pagan celebration of the Nordic Yule at the winter solstice, sponsored by Dr. Alfred Rosenberg and other extremist Nazis as a substitute for Christmas. Not since the Reformation has Christian feeling in the Reich been more intense. This Christmastide will see millions of Germans quietly celebrating a Christian Christmas. Protestants and Catholics alike will sing that best-beloved of all carols, Silent Night, in the fervent hope that the silent night will be followed by the dawn...