Word: catholicism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should a concordat be signed in the indicated sense, Pope Pius XI would be free to emerge from the Vatican and might even tour the U. S., as did King Albert of the Belgians. Once more there might be belligerent Papal troops, and a revival of the Church Militant in...
Then, at last. Bishop Manning began to be less diplomatic. When the Anglo-Catholic Congress met in Manhattan last fall he went openly to preside over it. That congress was so "high" that it looked to some quite Romish?what with masses, and talk of the rosary, and of prayer...
"Non-Catholics often misunderstand our position on birth control, for they seem to believe that Catholic married couples are bound to have children to the mother's capacity for child bearing. This is not our teaching. It is perfectly ethical to limit the family, if the method used is...
"The Catholic Church absolutely condemns birth control as essentially immoral, because it implies the limitation of the family by artificial prevention of conception. It is an unnatural perversion, for it goes against the order intended by God, and defeats the immediate end of a natural human act."
In 1914, when Pius died, Merry del Val seemed by all odds the likeliest candidate for St. Peter's throne. But a new force had arisen in the Catholic hierarchy, Giacomo della Chiesa, Archbishop of Bologna. Cardinal della Chiesa had delivered a striking address on the outbreak of the...