Word: romans
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...belief of the Roman Catholic Church and those who follow its teachings that the mutilation of the body for the purposes of contraception is a violation of the natural law and the revealed teachings of Christ. For this reason, Sister Mary Adele and the Brownsville Mercy Hospital were morally bound to act as they...
What does a Roman Catholic from France see when he looks at religion in the U.S.? In the current issue of the French Catholic monthly Esprit are three critical reports from returned visitors...
Cardinals & Crackups. The year's most popular book, fiction or nonfiction, was a fat, slick novel about a young priest's spectacular rise in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Commonplace, often dull, Henry Morton Robinson's The Cardinal nevertheless found nearly 600,000 customers, of whom about three-fourths chose the paper-covered edition...
...most historic events in American Christianity." For four days last week 600 delegates and 3,000 observers had threaded their way to & from Cleveland's Public Auditorium through shoulder-high embankments of leftover snow, to found a new organization that will represent non-Roman Catholic Christianity as it has never been represented before...
...Hours a Day. The Carthusian Order, founded at the end of the nth Century, is considered one of the strictest in the Roman Catholic Church. Unlike the Trappists, who live and work together in silence, the Carthusians spend most of their time in complete solitude. Carthusian monasteries, which the British call "charter houses," are constructed around a cloister, on which opens each monk's individual house with his private walled garden. The houses are small but include a room for eating, a room for sleeping, a study and a chapel. Each monk has a woodworking shop in which...