Word: church
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aware of hypocrisy in high places and evil deeds done in religion's name. But, with a firm belief in the basic goodness of Christianity, he fought and won his battles against evil. Unfortunately, too many of us are like William McCarthy. We see the evil in the church as a sign for us to step out and ridicule it from the outside. This is the easy way. The true Christian remains within the fold and does his best to help rid his church of abuses wherever they may be found...
...mother's death, José gave his fortune to charity and went off to Peru to enter the Franciscan order. Six years later, after he was ordained a priest in Lima's San Francisco Monastery, police were called out to control the admirers surging into the church to hear him sing his first Mass...
Since war's end, church-building in the U.S. has been on the boom, notably on the Pacific Coast and in the Southwest. A typical example is Houston, Texas, which had 335 churches in 1936, has 515 today and more abuilding. But the boom is nationwide; Protestant denominations alone have more than $1 billion worth of new construction planned. Architecturally, what are U.S. churches making of the opportunity...
Construction of a $200,000 church on Winthrop Street, behind the Indoor Athletic Building, will begin as soon as demolition of a three-story red brick tenement is completed, it was learned last night. The church, which will serve Lutheran students of Greater Boston, is being built by the congregation of University Lutheran Church...
Wallach's statement went on, "Father Feeney is a man rightly repudiated by his parish, his Order, and by his Church at Rome. His is the mentality that applied the torch to the medieval fagots of the Inquisition; his is the dogmatism that forced Galileo to recant and burned St. Joan of Arc. His is the bigotry at which sincere Churchmen pale with horror...