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Long since defunct are the Cathari, the Patarini, the Albigenses, many another sect denounced as heretical by the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. But the heretic Waldensian Church, born of social and religious restlessness in the 12th Century, still exists as the world's oldest evangelical Christian body. It was founded by Peter Waldo, a rich Lyons merchant who vowed himself to poverty, defied the Pope by preaching and interpreting the Bible in 1179. Excommunicated along with numerous other heretics in 1184, he attracted a following who believed with him that it was wrong to take oaths...
...Soviet press have warned that instances exist of Donets coal miners using timber, nails and bricks allotted them by the State to build homes, to build their village a church instead. Ten collective farms in the Dubovka region were reported to consist entirely of members of the Molokani sect. At Torzhok a majority of girls belonging to the Young Communists also belong to the Church. Most scandalous and alarming of all from the Communist point of view: the Soviet press has been reporting that in public baths Red Army soldiers are frequently seen with small Orthodox crosses hung...
...precisely for this reason, it educates the Christian unto a spirit of humility and that childlike simplicity which is spoken of in the Gospel." To his bishops the Pope recommends use of the Rosary as a counterattack on the Church's prime bugaboo, Communism. Thus. "As the terrible sect of Albigensians was overcome by the invocation of Mary, so, we hope, shall then be overcome those who, as Communists of today, remind us of them by their craftiness and violence...
Chairman of the Conference was one of the world's most respected Quakers, Dr. Rufus Matthew Jones of Haverford. Author of 40 books, longtime philosophy professor, Quaker Jones represents the broadening and liberalizing of Quaker thought which, without cooling its emotional nature, has kept the sect its self-respect. Dr. Jones, 74, is tall, pink-cheeked, white-crested, talks with the crisp accent of his native South China, Me.,, of whose Yearly Meeting he is still a member. He still lives on Haverford's cricket green, a professor emeritus, likes to watch from his window the sport which...
PERILOUS SANCTUARY-D. J. Hall- Macmillan ($2.50). Adventures and soulful taming of a lusty, hot-headed English fugitive among New Mexico's flagellant sect of Penitentes. Another example of the Southwest's inevitable incitement to mystical riot in English writers...