Word: benedict
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Before 1908 mixed marriages were not questioned in Quebec, because in 1741 Pope Benedict XIV declared that in The Netherlands and Belgium a Catholic could marry a "heretic" (i.e., a non-Catholic) without observance of Catholic ritual. Pope Clement XIII extended this ruling to Canada in 1764. The "Benedictine dispensation" was still in force when the present Quebec civil code was promulgated in 1866. But after Pius X revoked it in 1908, Quebec judges began interpreting the civil code provision that impediments to marriage "remain subject to the rules followed hitherto in the various churches" to mean they remain subject...
...final repudiation of peace negotiations of any kind preceding the destruction of Naziism. Said the President, bitterly: "[A few appeasers and Nazi sympathizers] even ask me to negotiate with Hitler-to pray for crumbs from his victorious table. They do, in fact, ask me to become the modern Benedict Arnold and betray all I hold dear-my devotion to our freedom-to our churches-to our country. This course I have rejected-I reject it again...
...front of the British Embassy paraded lady members of the Paul Revere Sentinels and Women's Neutrality League, brandishing placards which blared: "Benedict Arnold Helped England, Too," "Move Over, Unknown Soldier." Before they left they hanged a two-faced effigy of Roosevelt and Willkie to the Embassy gate...
There is also a religious reason why a Christmas truce would not work - as Pope Benedict XV found when he proposed one in 1914. In Albania the Italians will celebrate on Dec. 25, but the Greeks, following their Church's calendar (like the Russians in 1914), will celebrate...
Grandmother knew stories about the Old French War too, in which Maine men made British officers' eyes bug by capturing impregnable Louisburg. In the American Revolution, Benedict Arnold led Maine men through the blinding blizzards to attack Quebec. With him went two of Kenneth Roberts' great-great-grandfathers. And there was the persecution of the Tories by the rebels...