Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thorndike was astounded to find fewer ministers in a good town and a slightly negative correlation between the goodness of a city and its church attendance...
...insisted upon marrying non-Aryan Nora Gregor whom he had made the star of Vienna's official Burg-Theater, and to achieve this has been pestering the Catholic Church for three years to annul his own aristocratic marriage. Austria is deeply Catholic and wise Rome was unwilling to annul the marriage of a Vice-Chancellor of Austria so that he might marry an actress. II Duce esteemed that the Pope was right, shut off the flow of Italian money to the Prince, and Catholic Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg of Austria neatly wangled Starhemberg out of his Vice-Chancellory. After...
...From the church, Prince and new Princess von Starhemberg went directly to file papers on the basis of which an Austrian court immediately declared legitimate the son which the bride bore the bridegroom three years ago. The annulment of the Prince's earlier marriage was on the ground that he and his first Princess made and kept a pre-nuptial pact to have no children. Thus the child which was a bastard for three years now is a legitimate Prince von Starhemberg, aristocratic to his baby fingertips...
...ordaining married men to the priesthood. But in 1929 another apostolic letter was issued by the Vatican, this one forbidding bishops to appoint married priests to Greek Rite posts. Bishop Takach obeyed the order, but in Bridgeport, Conn., a priest dared not only oppose it but circularized Greek Catholic churches to stir up more opposition. This priest, a widower named Rev. Orestes Peter Chornock, was thereupon removed from his rich, comfortable Bridgeport parish, rusticated to a tiny church in Roebling...
...smart Italian officers in powder-blue caps and capes and farm boys from up-country who resented doing militia service for "this damned Fascism.'' Everywhere they went the visage of Il Duce made jowls at them from stencils on walls, effigies in street parades. In the Church of San Marco in Florence Peter Blume noted an older icon-a cheap statue of Christ crowned with thorns and bedecked with gift trinkets...