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... that the politically engaged clergy's moral and political leadership was essential to the successful mobilization of the masses against imperialism and the overthrow of the US-backed Pahlavi dictatorship, others, including Hezārkhānī, ultimately came to advocate in favor of a popular front and coalition of secular...

... of London. The Bishop was greatly impressed with the energy and zeal of Blair, and persuaded him to go as a missionary to the struggling colony of Virginia. No country ever had greater need of a minister of Blair s char­ acter and qualifications than Virginia. The condition of the clergy...

... lov­ ing one s neighbor to destroying one s neighbor, was fur­ nished in the last conflict when clergy quickly exchanged their blacksmith aprons for the garb of butchers. As early as 1915, Admiral Fiske observed that the Christian religion is at this moment being made to exert a powerful influence...

... competition and equal oppor­ tunity, the clergy put their sons into the biographical diction­ aries more than twice as frequently as other professional men, more than four times as frequently as men in business, thirtyfive times as often as farmers, and twenty-four hundred times as often as day laborers...

... composed of about twen­ ty-five million citizens, the proportion of representatives of the third estate on one hand, and of the clergy and nobility on the other should be twenty-four to one. This proportion is just and should be secured. 3 Others, while pointing out the nombre et celle de I ofinion far...

...-free existence. In the fabliau Des Estats du siecle we read of a young peasant: Qu au commencement de sa vie Regarda l estat de Clergie, Et vit qu il est trop precieux, Tres aisies, tres delicieux, Les clers ont les prelations, Les rantes, les possessions, The Peiest in Modeen Feench Fiction 115 Les...

.... Ministers put classical learning to use in a religious Emergence of the Humanities 197 framework. The ancient authors were an adjunct to Biblical study. In a strict sense, then, the clergy were the preservers and transmitters of the classical heritage in America. But the perusal of the classics...

..., and the Church hierarchy manifested sympathy with the anti-Bolshevik cause. The Reds retaliated by various measures of punishment, though execution of offenders, as frequently charged by emigre clergy, was not the customary practice. During the period of the New Economic Policy (1921-1928), a strategic retreat...

... to the greate buyldyng of this obbey (E2r), and enjoins labor on the now decadent clergy. He tells how the monastic order of Bernardine monks came in reproach of the lax Benedictines and sought to restore the ancient rule. Expounding right religion, which to him is of the rigorous kind, he holds up St...

... of classification, we have the emphasis upon the large place of the clergy, the military, and the skilled handicrafts, in the pro­ duction of genius. In those statistics, as in our own, artists, whether poetic, pictorial or histrionic, have come in a marked degree from the artisan or craftsman class and rarely from...

... the Christian clergy as vampires sucking the blood of the people. Voltaire, indeed, in his article on Vampires in his Philosophical Dictionary likens the vampires of European superstition to the clergy, or rather to the monks. In his delightful tale Candide he states that Paraguay was a happy state until...

... An Introduction, The Commonweal, 12 November 1924, p. 5. 2 On Propaganda, The Commonweal, 19 November 1924, p. 28. Commonweal Catholics 191 Commonweal was different from the other Church periodicals of its day because it was a journal edited by laymen in a field that was regulated by the clergy, a magazine...

..., the Christiansocialist Mouvement Republicain Populaire had been born of the ashes of war, the prestige of Charles de Gaulle, the urge for some­ thing new, and the heroic wartime resistance of the clergy as well as the MRP leader Georges Bidault. Actually, the term Christiansocialist MRP is a misnomer; it would...

... of instantaneous conversions was raging within St. Philip s Parish, but the Rector of St. Philip s was Alexander Garden, the Bishop of London s Commissary for North Carolina, South Carolina, and the Bahamas, who intended to use his power among the clergy to destroy George Whitefield. In March, 1740, he warned...

..., find themselves in places or in circumstances where they supplement the secular clergy. The argument may not entirely mollify the vic­ tims, but it may immobilize the wills of the onlookers for a moment, and a people that hesitates to resist any of Napoleon s early measures is lost. As the viceroy...

... with the Church. Both the Church and the clergy in Utopia are reformed reformed in the sense that they know nothing of the ecclesiastical abuses so familiar in England and they are, in Professor Ames s view, representative of the kind of Church and clergy that were desired by the middle classes and by Colet...

... frontation in Garden s home, the commissary reprimanded White- field for attacking the clergy, accused him of violating the canons and Ordination vow, and ordered him not to preach again in the Carolinas. The young evangelist replied in defiance that he would regard that order no more than he would a Pope...

... to the Tsarist government was a duty and resistance a deadly sin. The clergy were in many cases flagrantly corrupt and preyed upon the ignorance and super­ stition of the workers and peasants. Since the October Rev­ olution the Communists have been at great pains to expose many of the holy relics of the saints...

... representatives of the three estates of France: the clergy, the nobility, and the Third 1 Stendhal, The Life of Henry Brulard, trans, by Jean Stewart and B. C. J. G. Knight (London, 1958), p. 25. Trouble in the Provinces 369 Estate, comprising everyone else. The last Estates General had met in 1614. In practice...

... of the South must come through other persons, liberal business men, professional men, the strong, capable, thoughtful-men, in every city and town and country neighborhood. Referring to the criticism that some of the advocates of new ideas made upon the Southern clergy for not assuming a more liberal atti­...