Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quebec Liberals in the King Cabinet threatened to resign if he won, and spectacular Minister of Justice Ernest Lapointe, who might be Canada's Prime Minister if he were British, campaigned against him with epigrams: "It is the Union Nazionale, not the Union Nationale I" Finally the powerful Church failed to support him. The Premier began to mumble about good roads, public works, farm credits...
...another time less disturbed by calamitous external events"-an indication that after the war he might call an ecumenical council to define such errors. In continuation of the policies of his predecessor, Pius XII identified as errors: 1) racism, and 2) totalitarianism. Of the first: "The Church of Christ . . . cannot, and does not, think of deprecating or disdaining the particular characteristics which each people with jealous and intelligible pride cherishes. . . . Her aim is a supernatural union in all-embracing love...
Declaring that "many turn their gaze with renewed hope to the Church, the rock of truth and of charity," Pius XII nevertheless took note that, to many, the precepts of the Church are "an object of suspicion, as if they shook the foundations of civil authority or usurped its rights." This the Pope denied. But he forthrightly marked off the Church's stand when he said: "So many noble minds separated from us ... are recognizing in the Catholic Church principles of belief and life that have stood the test of two thousand years . . . [the Church] is generous...
...Sunday, in St. Peter's, Pius XII gave practical proof of his views on racism. He consecrated a dozen white, black, yellow and brown bishops and vicars apostolic,* for services in Africa and the Orient. One vicar apostolic, Monsignor Joseph Kiwanuka of Uganda, was the Church's first consecrated Negro since 1875 (when a Negro was bishop of Portland, Me.). The others: a Chinese, a Madagascarian, an Indian, two Americans, six Europeans...
...press regarded the situation with "dismay," the Government stood adamant against opening schools in the danger areas, lest it encourage a wholesale return. It did, however, recall 200 teachers to London, sent them out to round up youngsters in the streets and hold impromptu classes on sandbags, in church crypts, in basements...