Word: archdiocesan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such groups, Archbishop Gushing told the Archdiocesan Union of Holy Name Societies, were a "refined form of the Ku Klux Klan." Cautioning Catholics against being "dazzled" by slogans about separation of church and state, and similar "glittering generalities," he said: "Our people are in a very precarious position thanks to the extremely hard, though evil work, which contemporary anti-Catholics have done . . . The damage they are accomplishing in creating prejudice on the one hand and uneasiness on the other is very considerable indeed...
That was too much for Monsignor Edward A. Freking, editor of the official archdiocesan weekly, the Catholic Telegraph-Register. Cried Monsignor Freking: "I could take Mildred Miller's whole column, change 25 words, and prove that people descended from apes." In an editorial in the Telegraph-Register last week, he threatened a Catholic boycott of the Enquirer if the American Weekly ("literary trash and blasphemous views") lived up to its advance billing...
...Loyalties. The diocese or archdiocese often has financial responsibility for high schools, which usually charge tuition. The boys at Stepinac pay $15 a month, though Father Krug explained: "No boy is sent away because he can't pay. His parish shoulders the difference." Since Stepinac is the first archdiocesan high school in Westchester County, the boys commute from many towns-some of them 20 miles...
Unequivocal disapproval came last week from one of the top archbishops in the U.S. hierarchy. To the clergy of Cincinnati, from whom authoritarian Archbishop John Timothy McNicholas, 67, demands implicit obedience, came an archdiocesan letter which minced no words...
With these indignant outcries calmer Catholic voices chimed in. Said the archdiocesan weekly for Baltimore and Washington: "There has been some hypocrisy ... in the protests." Commonweal, edited by Catholic laymen, said: "The announcements [that special precautions were taken in the bombing of Rome] make it look as if Catholics thought there must be one justice for Rome and another for all other cities. ... To precisely the extent his faith is strong and informed [the Catholic] will make no distinction between the bombing of Rome and that of a miserable Calabrian village, an industrial city of the Ruhr and an English...