Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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As a contributor to the "Catholic Worker," Peter Maurin is one of the most widely read writers of the present day America. The simplicity as well as the uniqueness of his style helps him to be tradily understood in an age when one must write simply and cleverly, if one...
Any Aryan who has the slightest Germanic strain is a "German" to Adolf Hitler, who has laid down in Mein Kampf the mystic affinity of all "German blood." Last week "Germans" in the Free State of Danzig finally forced the dissolution of the last remaining political party opposed to the...
Typical are the above quotes from A Reporter At The Papal Court by Thomas B. Morgan (Longmans, Green, $3) published last week. As might be guessed, fact is that no other correspondent has ever combined such a keen American nose for newsy Papal intimacies with such a respectful Roman nose...
Observer Morgan in his chapter Behind the Ceremonies, points out that the canonization of a Catholic saint, although it is at least as elaborate as the British Coronation, is never rehearsed. Canonizations "being purely religious exercises the idea of rehearsal is repugnant. . . . These grandiose functions are held at such in...
Preliminary statistics from Phillips Brooks House, compiled from the records of religious affiliation obtained at registration, give the numerical representation of the various sects as follows: Baptist 157 Buddhist 4 Catholic 747 Christian Church 42 Christian Science 108 Congregational 410 Disciples of Christ 4 Dutch Reform 8 Episcopalians 469 Ethical...