Word: canon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unwanted presents for their friends, to the profit of the dollar-hungry. For a month before the Feast, the cry is: 'Buy! Adeste Fideles. Nylons for your lady! . . . It Came Upon the Midnight Clear. What came, Mummy? Santa Claus, my dar-lings.' " So writes sharp-penned Canon Bernard Iddings Bell in the current Faith and Thought, bulletin of the Episcopal faculty and students at the University of Chicago. The deChristianizing of Christmas was also troubling other Christians last week. In Milwaukee, the community was trying to do something about...
...philosophical discussions with his professor-priests and his probing questions in Latin. He also spoke fluent English, taught him by his Irish-Canadian mother (Mary Ann Broderick St. Laurent) and his bilingual father. After St. Laurent became Prime Minister, a newsman asked an old schoolmate, the Rev. Canon Dolor Biron of Sherbrooke, for incidents of St. Laurent's college days. Said the canon: "Mr. St. Laurent is a man who does not have incidents...
Died. Dame Una Pope-Hennessey, 73, distinguished-British biographer (Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography, 1934; Charles Dickens, 1945; Canon Charles Kingsley, 1949) who was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1930 by King George V for her war work; in London...
...ever equaled Cesare Borgia's record for quick promotion. Cesare was the bastard son of Vatican Vice-Chancellor Rodrigo Borgia and his mistress Vanozza de Catanei. When he was only six, he was made Canon of Valencia. At 15, he became Bishop of Pamplona; at 16, archbishop of Valencia; at 17, a cardinal. Only the papal throne itself stood ahead of young Cardinal Borgia, but since that was now occupied by his crafty father (who had become Pope Alexander VI), the frustrated youngster started looking around for other worlds to conquer...
Journalist, author, social reformer Paul Blanshard has produced a hardhitting attack upon the political ideas and practices of the American Catholic hierarchy. His latest book scratches the surface of the Canon Law, spot bombs the Papal Encyclicals, and analyzes in telling journalese pamphlets, articles, and speeches of both leading and lesser clerics throughout the country. His theses are in the main two: The Catholic community in America is tightly organized and disciplined from Rome; and the Church militant is bent upon securing political supremacy for itself and intolerance for all dissenting groups...