Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Drifters from the sidewalks and the magazine rooms, a few tired shoppers from 42nd Street, earnest students with notebooks and clattering herds of bewildered schoolchildren filed into a long exhibition room of the New York Public Library last week. Sprinkled among this crowd was many a Catholic nun, cowled & coiffed...
"To the honor of the holy and undivided Trinity, for the exaltation of the Catholic faith and the increase of the Christian religion, by the authority of Our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and of Ourselves. . . . We decree and define that Bernadette is a saint...
Saint Bernadette's day in the catalog of Catholic saints: Feb. 11.
Accompanied by two detectives and a score of newsmen, a plumpish priest in Roman collar and rabat bustled through Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal one afternoon last week. More police were waiting near the platform gate. Two nights before, Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin. radiorator, had whipped a prodigious Hippodrome...
Meanwhile statements were flying thick & fast over Spellbinder Coughlin's accusation that Alfred Emanuel Smith, foe of the Roosevelt program, had gone with two Catholic bishops to the House of Morgan to arrange a loan for his Empire State Building. Al Smith warmly denied this, adding: "From boyhood I...