Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SOME years ago when the average reader thought of English converts to the Roman Catholic Church, he immediately recalled Messrs. Belloc, Chesterton, and D.B. Wyndham Lewis; now he adds perforce the name of Mr. Dawson. Mr. Dawson resembles his three associates in many respects: he is an historian, for example...
A grave defect of the book--though the paper on "Piers Plowman" somewhat mitigates it--is Mr. Dawson's failure to relate the break-up of the mediaeval synthesis to social phenomena like the decline of feudalism, that all-embracing system of "organized anarchy," as Professor Haskins once called it...
In your issue of Dec. 10 there is an article on religion in which that able and distinguished theologian, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, in his discourse on the subject speaks disparagingly of its powers-"For it lifts up its voice, but only to protest. It cannot command." . . . It is quite evident...
But not until last week did an influential body of U. S. Catholic doctors dare to discuss the subject boldly and receptively. The group was Chicago's Cosmas & Damian Associates, guild of physicians and surgeons. Five hundred of them had scholarly Father John A. O'Brien of the...
This system of natural contraception is based on research by Professor Kyusaku Ogino of Niigata, Japan and Professor Hermann Knaus of Graz, Austria. They observed that a woman is fertile only seven or eight days of her month and will rarely conceive outside that span. Professors Ogino and Knaus say...