Word: nazareth
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Holy Week pilgrims to Nazareth must have thought at first that they were in the wrong town. Crimson banners bearing the hammer & sickle and Picasso peace doves hung from street lights, and Marxist slogans were plastered on the centuries-old walls of the Church of the Annunciation. Turbaned Communist orators belabored street-corner crowds. Nazareth, the boyhood home of Jesus Christ, was electing 15 city councilmen...
Since 1948, the 21,000 inhabitants of Nazareth, the only all-Arab town in the state of Israel, have lived under the rule of a Jewish military governor. In that time, they have worked up a full head of resentment against Israel. When Israel decided last month to lift military rule and permit Nazareth to choose its own city council, the town's Communist leaders got to work among the city's Moslems and Christian Arabs. The Communists had the most money to spend, and outdid all others in the stridency of their attack on the Jews...
Foucauld was something of a problem monk. Postponing his ordination as a priest, he spent three years as a menial for an abbess of a convent at Nazareth...
...Report of Jesus of Nazareth by Otto Dibelius...
...cross that man, as he is, is always in revolt against God . . . But, while man's nature rages, God's Plan and God's Truth stand secure-as the stars in heaven stand above the earth. The notion that the age of Jesus of Nazareth has come to an end, and that now new truths will prevail, is a delusion. Truth is not tied to time. Jesus is the truth for all time...