Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week 50 foreign newsmen flew to Vienna to see for themselves whether "internal trouble" was developing in newly-absorbed Austria. There they questioned their host, hard-boiled Reich Commissioner for Austria Josef Bürckel, about his No. 1 prisoner, Kurt von Schuschnigg, independent Austria's last Chancellor...
*Catholic authorities deny that such a ceremony, if any in fact was performed, could be valid because no action has been taken by the Sacred Roman Rota to dissolve the Countess' previous marriage.
Last week an influential Roman Catholic weekly, The Commonweal, made news by urging U. S. Catholics to be impartial on the Spanish civil war. Under Editor Michael Williams, The Commonweal rooted for a Franco victory. But three months ago Michael Williams stepped out as editor-in-chief and a cooler...
Well aware that this about-face would strew some wigs on the green, The Commonweal's editors assured their readers that they did not favor the Loyalist cause, which, they said, has ''permitted the murder of priests, nuns and lay people" and has allied itself with Soviet...
Commonweal's reversal last week called attention to a widening split among Catholics over Spain. The publications of the British Dominican order (Blackfriars) and the French Dominicans (La Vie Intellectuelle), and the (Dominican-inspired) secular Temps Present in Paris also have attacked Franco, plumped for nonpartisanship. Recently Author Georges...