Word: canonization
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...civil law respects canon law as it applies to the internal affairs of a church.* Therefore since the Catholic court had ruled against Attorney Daignault and friends, the Rhode Island courts did likewise. Attorney Daignault lost his case. Worse, he had been responsible for the appearance in a secular court of a Catholic Bishop as defendant...
...sheep herder is Pietro Cardinal Gasparri. This priest of strong and massive build can charm a Principessa with his wit, astonish a jurist by his profundity in canon law (which he has codi-fied), or paralyze a nervous opponent by the piercing glance of his large eyes, peering from beneath abnormally heavy, Mephistophelian eyebrows (see cut). Cardinal Gasparri has been Papal Secretary of State for 14 years, twice the length of the tenure of any Prime Minister in Europe. Last week he rose to the grand climax of his career by signing a document which liberates Pope Pius XI from...
...opposing Smith because of his religion," cried Bishop James Canon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in an oration at a Washington theatre...
Sunday dawned. Eve of the signing. In Canada, Germany, elsewhere, pastors thought of the French capital to which their captains and kings had departed to outlaw what has often been the business of captains and kings. In Toronto, Canon Plumptre dedicated the service of St. James's Cathedral to the signing of the treaty. Later, militaristic Author Rudyard Kipling's Recessional was sung. In Berlin, General Superintendent of Evangelical Churches Herr Doktor Martin Bibilius spoke in the same wise but made no mention of Imperialist Kipling...
...disturb it by attempting to describe to him the heavy weight that he laid upon my family when he accused me of being a friend of prostitution. . . . My record as an opponent of immorality is fixed and secure. Publicly and by many letters in my possession, the late Rev. Canon John P. Peters, when chairman of the Committee of Fourteen, the leading anti-vice society of New York, repeatedly thanked me for my co-operation with that organization. No one in all the 25 years of my public life has ever dared to make the vile suggestions which emanated from...