Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington. For room & board, $8.75 a week; for lunches, $1.25; for clothing, $2.87; and $4.13 for everything else, including such things as health, recreation, transportation, personal care, savings & insurance, church & charity. Some annual clothing items: three hats at $1.95, one at $2.95; three sweaters at $1.69; three handbags at $1; one $3.95 raincoat every three years; one heavy coat ($29.50), one light coat ($16.95) every two years; four slips fit $1.69; two girdles at $3.95; one scarf at $1; two collar-&-cuff sets at 59?; six bloomers and panties at 59?; two pairs of shoes...
...Faced by an increasingly secular world, the Episcopal Church does not seem on the basis of its statistics to be actually moving forward." So last week editorialized the Living Church Annual, unofficial Episcopal yearbook, in presenting Episcopal facts and figures for 1937. The Church numbered 27,672 more baptized persons than in 1936 (total 2,095412) and gained 15,805 communicants (total 1,424,137). Episcopalians gave $31,938,489.04 for all purposes, the highest figure since 1933. The Episcopal clergy numbered 6,390, an increase of five men. But there were 21 fewer ordinations to the diaconate, seven fewer...
Last week, nearly a year after Bishop Edmund F. Gibbons banned church-sponsored "bingo" games in his Albany, N. Y. diocese (TIME, Dec. 21, 1936), a further reaction against such games of chance was noticeable in the Catholic Church. Archbishop Samuel Alphonsus Stritch of Milwaukee had put a ban upon all games in which money or the equivalent could be won. Bishop Henry Althoff of Belleville, Ill. not only forbade church gambling but voiced the hope that his people would support their churches by direct contribution rather than parish parties and festivals. Archbishop John Joseph Glennon of St. Louis condemned...
...Most Rev. John A. Floersh, 51, bishop since 1924 and now archbishop of Louisville, was for ten years secretary to the Apostolic delegate in Washington, the Vatican's liaison representative to the U. S. Church. The Louisville province will embrace all the Catholics of Kentucky and Tennessee, formerly attached to the province of Cincinnati. The bishop of the new diocese of Owensboro will shepherd the faithful of western Kentucky...
...years, clad in clerical garb, Abbate became a prime exhibit for psychology classes from Chicago universities, readily telling students of the messages and visions he experienced. Last week "Padre" Abbate was installed once more, surrounded by men and women in monastic robes, in a three-story house containing his church and living quarters. He posed for photographers, wearing vestments resembling a bishop's and a mitre bearing cabalistic words, with one of his tonsured "monks" by his side. He held services for his people, giving them "the sacraments," for, as his housekeeper explained, "we are really a Roman Catholic...