Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, His Eminence, born a Sudeten Austrian, preached a plain-spoken anti-Nazi sermon at a youth service at St. Stephen's, exhorted 10,000 worshipers to "give outward testimony" of their faith. The "outward testimony" soon took the form of Catholic demonstrations before Nazi sympathizers. The next...
This ancient body (founded in 1562), devoted to the spread of religious teaching, did not reach the U. S. until 1903, did not hold annual meetings in the U. S. until four years ago. Last week 5,000 Catholics gathered in Hartford, Conn, for the Confraternity's Catechetical Congress...
The Confraternity appointed 21 Catholic theologians to revise the Douay-Reims Bible. A sample of their work, the Gospel according to St. John, was circulated among last week's Catechetical Congress. Chief innovations: it omits all archaic word forms except thee, thou, thine; does not capitalize the pronouns referring...
Since 1885, U. S. Catholic children have learned by rote a "Penny Catechism" prepared by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. A new catechism, compiled by 150 U. S. theologians, was last week being scrutinized by U. S. bishops.
The very first question has been simplified from "Who made the world?" to "Who made us?," the answer from "God made the world'' to "God made us." Considerably expanded are sections dealing with the duties of a Catholic citizen. There children will learn that a citizen pays "just...