Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aghast at what was happening, henchmen of ex-Premier Azana and other leaders who made Spain a Republic, began to do their bit by bursting into polling places and smashing voting urns amid a welter of trampled ballots. Even the anti-Socialist but definitely Republican party of Premier Don Diego...
In 304 A. D. Roman Emperor Maximianus commanded an officer named Victor, a convert to Christianity, to burn incense to Jupiter. Victor not only refused to obey but in a burst of religious fervor toppled over Jupiter's altar, smashed the god's statue. For his deed his...
Last week the staid old Church of England buzzed over the exciting possibility of its first Episcopal trial in 46 years.* Under fire from the Church's Anglo-Catholic wing was Rt. Rev. Albert Augustus David, Lord Bishop of Liverpool, a lean, wavy-haired divine whose fame as a...
Their leader last week was Lord Hugh Cecil, member of a famed Anglo-Catholic family, brother of Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil and of the grey-bearded Bishop of Exeter. Lord Hugh announced he would promote a suit against Bishop David before the Archbishop of York, if someone would supply legal...
U. S. Episcopalians engage in much the same sort of intramural wars as their brothers in England. But because the Anglican Church is an arm of the State, its affairs cause wider repercussions. Only in England could laymen become as excited as they did last week over a second church...