Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quick to retort to the Holy Father was Rev. Ilsley Boone, executive secretary of the International Nudist Conference. "A careful re-reading," said he in Manhattan, "suggests that the Pontiff was not attacking American nudism, since no authenticated case of wantonness or immorality has been cited against the organized movement...
Meanwhile the anti-Nudism bill sponsored by Alfred Emanuel Smith as head of the New York Legion of Decency had quietly collapsed in the New York State Legislature (TIME, Jan. 14). At a committee hearing last month plenty of opponents showed up but only the National Catholic Welfare Conference went...
Because of "the infirmity of advancing years," San Francisco's Catholic Archbishop Edward Joseph Hanna, 74, announced last week that he is retiring. A onetime theology professor suspected of "modernism," he became Bishop in 1912, Archbishop in 1915. Archbishop Hanna is rated one of California's first citizens...
Readers who know that Hilaire Belloc is himself a poet, a lusty controversialist and a belligerent Roman Catholic, anticipated some pyrotechnic digressions, and they were not disappointed. Author Belloc's Milton resounds with Bellockian bellows, on every subject from the present state of the nation to the sniveling rascality...
Last month veteran 64-year-old Hilaire Belloc landed at Manhattan, to see his U. S. publisher and rest up before beginning his next book (he has written between 80 and 100. confesses he has lost track of the total). His first visit to the U. S. was in 1896...