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And he expanded their credit by announcing a 150 increase, to $2.50 per bu., in the amount a farmer can borrow from federal agencies against his wheat crop.
It was in 1549 that the Church of England forsook the Latin liturgy and began worshiping in the king's English. By the church's good fortune, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer edited the original Book of Common Prayer with such felicity that it has stood for centuries as a...
George Gallup Jr., who is an Episcopalian as well as a pollster, reported on a national random survey of 512 Episcopal laity and 654 clergy showing that 63% of lay members still prefer the old prayer book. Only 23% are for the new. Episcopalians no longer active in the church...
His personal motto was Semper idem (always the same) and he lived up to it with matchless rigor. Prior to the liberalizing Second Vatican Council, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani was one of the most feared and powerful princes of the Roman Catholic world. His authority as a ranking doctrinal watchdog came...
His power seemed to evaporate in one humiliating and dramatic day. At Vatican II's first session in 1962, he was orating against liturgical reform and ran well beyond the ten-minute limit on speeches.