Word: canonize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judge English had committed contempt of court by violating Canon 35 of the Canons of Judicial Ethics (adopted by the court in 1951), which forbids courtroom photography as detracting from a trial's "dignity and decorum...
...feel of "justification by faith" that in his translation of the Bible he dared to insert the word "alone"' on his own authority. Against what he saw as a privileged caste of priests, he maintained "the priesthood of all believers.'' and against the Roman institution of canon law. he held that each Christian had a vocation to change the world with his own daily life...
Horrified, he notified his bishop; equally horrified, the bishop consulted canon law and found a clause stipulating that "epitaphs...and tomb decorations must not contain any material offending the Catholic Church or piety." Forthwith, he ordered the godless symbols removed from the tombstone...
...Roman Catholics, 27,158 taking instruction, and includes 82 priests (64 white, 18 Negro), with 40 parishes, three secondary schools, three teacher-training colleges, five hospitals and 329 primary schools. Bishop Amissah's thesis at St. Peter's College in Rome was on a comparison between Catholic canon law and native customs on marriage; he is currently investigating the native custom of pouring libations on important occasions (English gin, schnapps or potent akpeteshie, illicitly distilled from palm juice). There has been considerable church controversy over this practice; church leaders boycotted a welcome ceremony to the Duchess of Kent...
...poet William Butler Yeats was also a prolific playwright, with no less than twenty-four dramas, two adaptations from Sophocles, and several unpublished juvenile efforts to his credit. From this canon, which consists almost wholly of rather short works, the Poets' Theatre presents three in its current production. Although only one of the offerings is completely satisfactory, the result is still a worthwhile evening of theater...