Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Of importance in Mexican politics was a grave pronouncement at Mexico City last week in which the Catholic Church reviewed and re-emphasized its abhorrence of what the Church defines as Socialism.
...Wang family of Peiping named their daughter Ta-jun ("All Gracious"). When, aged 11 and just out of elementary school, the child was found to be dangerously tuberculous, they put her in the care of the Sisters of St. Michael's Hospital. Ta-jun quickly became interested in Catholicism, was baptized in 1929. She chose the name Marie for the Blessed Virgin, Thèrèse for the Little Flower of Lisieux, whose career she was to duplicate at many points. The 33 months pale, pretty Marie Thèrèse Wang was a Christian on earth...
Orange Bowl. In Miami, Florida's florid answer to the Rose Bowl drew only 12,000 who were astonished at Catholic University players' reluctance to pose with a reception committee of blondes, were further astonished when the same players scored three touchdowns to top Mississippi's fourth...
Surely TIME'S intelligent and informed Religion editor could inform the foreign department that an ex-Catholic who has not communicated for years and who has openly attacked the Church can no longer be described as a Catholic without flat inaccuracy. To be a Catholic, as TIME knows well...
Asked 'Is Hitler a Catholic?" the Archbishop of Munich, Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber replies: "The Archbishopric is not aware that Der Führer has ever withdrawn from the Catholic Church." Declared Herr Hitler's own Realmchancellery: "Adolf Hitler was born a Catholic, baptized a Catholic and is...