Word: catholicism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of Duplessis' civil-rights policies would have been incredible anywhere else in North America: the notorious Padlock Law for political groups he deemed "Communist," his harassment of Jehovah's Witnesses, the brutal record of his tough provincial cops in labor disputes. Duplessis was sometimes at odds with...
The Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York. Francis Cardinal Spellman - Whitman High School, Whitman, Mass., 1907.
Writing in the latest issue of the confraternity's journal. Reunion, Anglican Rea said that during a private audience last June the Pope noticed that the Anglican was carrying a breviary-a compilation of daily prayers and psalms in Latin that are obligatory for Roman Catholic priests. "That book...
Without doubt, wrote Martin Luther, ";confession of sins is necessary, and in accordance with the divine commandments" But Luther was dead set against the Roman Catholic obligation to confess before receiving Communion. Confession, he felt, should be voluntary, and Christians must be clear that their absolution comes only from God...
† Roman Catholic formula: "May our Lord Jesus Christ absolve thee; and I, by His authority, absolve thee . . . inasmuch as in my power lieth, and thou standest in need. Finally, I absolve thee from thy sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy...