Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ Rev. Francis Gross, a retired Catholic priest of Perth Amboy, N. J., mopped his thick jowls in the torrid committee room as he told of an anti-Semitic pamphlet he had written called "Justice to Hungary, Germany and Austria." When his printer dunned him. Father Gross wrote him that...
Enthroned on the epistle side of the altar, the swart Apostolic Delegate looked cool and content. In mitre, gloves, amice, alb and stiff brocaded chasuble, 54-year-old Archbishop Curley perspired heavily but went through the ritual as valiantly as if he had not passed a winter of poor health...
For many a year the U. S. churches have deplored what they call the brazen indecency of U. S. cinema. Their annual conferences have passed resolutions. Their clergy have lobbied for censorship bills. Their journals have crusaded. But for all their zeal the churches have accomplished very little. Last week...
Organized under the leadership of Most Rev. John Timothy McNicholas, Archbishop of Cincinnati, the Legion of Decency binds pledge-signers to "remain away from all motion pictures except those which do not offend decency and Christian morality." The Legion of Decency charges no dues, hence differs from Mrs. August Belmont...
The Legion of Decency provides no official guide to good and bad films. But individual priests and bishops may blacklist as they please. Fortnight ago in thousands of Catholic churches, schools and colleges appeared a poster written by Rev. Daniel Aloysius Lord, Jesuit editor of The Queen's Work...