Word: catholicism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This extremely severe discipline was meted out by the Supreme Pontiff in an effort to stop the famed editors of L'Action Française, Mr. Leon Daudet and Charles Maurras, from trading upon the prestige of Catholicism in order to gain Royalist supporters. This they have done by spreading a perverted doctrine, namely that Catholicism-which has so often upheld a stumbling royal house-should at this date espouse the lost cause of the Most Catholic House of Bourbon...
The Government of His Most Catholic Majesty Alphonso XIII, King of Spain, officially withdrew, last week, the notice which they gave two years ago of an intention to withdraw in 1928 from membership in the League of Nations.
The intelligent humility of this utterance is in keeping with the character of Dr. Edgar Johnson Goodspeed. Gracious, energetic, perhaps a trifle over-imbued with the onward-and-upward-and-quickly attitude of his University, Dr. Goodspeed is a type infinitely removed from the majestically conservative Roman Catholic, Francis Aidan...
Veils. This is a play about twin sisters. One of them began her career in a convent and then, troubled and restless, sought the world. The other, a criminal woman, deserted the world after an erratic career and became entirely lulled by the soft silences of the nunnery. The play...
Kit had three wives in eight years-the first two were Indian squaws whom he married according to Indian custom. The third was a beautiful Spanish girl, Josefa. They were married by a Catholic priest.