Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answer to newsmen's questions, the Vatican last week indicated that the ban did not apply specifically to such other groups as Kiwanis, Lions, and Elks. Priestly membership in such clubs was merely discouraged because they are "worldly" and a possible source of "distraction from the priestly mission...
Indiana's Bishop John F. Noll, a charter member of the Huntington (Ind.) Rotary Club (whose current president is a priest), said he was certain the Vatican had been misinformed about Rotary in the U.S., and that it would withdraw its ban on ecclesiastical memberships once the matter had been explained. Father John Fullerton, director of Toronto's Catholic Charities, said he would not drop his membership in Rotary until officially informed of the decree. Father Thomas F. Nenon of Memphis said: "I can't understand it at all. I can't see anything in Rotary...
...recommended, and the Peking regime approved: 1) a ban on U.S. subsidies for China schools and churches, 2) a takeover by the Red state or by puppet "people's" enterprises of all U.S.-subsidized educational, medical and relief institutions, 3) a transfer of U.S.-subsidized "religious bodies" to the control of "Chinese believers [whom] the government should encourage to become independent, self-sufficient and self-preaching...
...Ireland's prim Censorship of Publications Board slapped a ban of six months to a year on 14 U.S. magazines. Sample titles: Nifty, All True Fact Crime Cases, Special Detective. Esquire, banned nine months ago for being "indecent and obscene," was suspended indefinitely...
...State Supreme Court Justice Henry Clay Greenberg threatened a temporary injunction against the edict. "I am concerned," he said, "with whether the commissioner has a right to set himself up as a dictator." At that point, McCaffrey weakened. While waiting for a full hearing this week, he lifted the ban. That evening, any New Yorker with the price of a ticket ($1.50) could see The Miracle and judge for himself whether it was worth all the todo...