Word: canon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ordinarily the Church would also have denied her burial in consecrated ground. But Catholic canon law in this respect is flexible, depending largely on the judgment of the local bishop. Since the Mexican Government frequently overrides Church decisions, a Mexican bishop might well be persuaded to grant what a California bishop would withhold. Hence Lupe Velez's body lies in holy ground. But if she took her life deliberately, her soul, according to Catholic doctrine, will find no rest through all eternity...
...Canon City, Colo...
Social Revolutionist. Ordained to the priesthood, Temple served successively as chaplain to the then Archbishop of Canterbury, headmaster of Repton School, rector of St. James's in Piccadilly, Canon of Westminster Abbey. In 1921 he was appointed Bishop of Manchester. Eight years later, at 48, he was made the youngest Archbishop of York in history...
...rigid observance of canon law, Sister Mary has skillfully built her composition into a musical unit which employs at each stage a predominant theme from a well-known spiritual. At the Kyrie, the theme of Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen invokes the mercy of the Lord, and at the Gloria, Go Down, Moses proclaims His glory. For the profession of faith at the Credo there is the theme of Blow Your Trumpet, Gabriel. At the Sanctus and Benedictus ("Blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord") are the melo dies of Goin' Home...
...Gamble, the blind, tyrannical spiritualist, was listening to her hired companion, husky-voiced, Madonna-faced Veronica Thwale, absently read aloud from the works of Sir Oliver Lodge. Mrs. Thwale's mind was mainly absorbed in mulling over her favorite dream-in which her father, a Church of England canon, was crucified by a troop of Boy Scouts...