Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many Mansions (by Jules Eckert Goodman and Eckert Goodman; produced by Many Mansions Inc.). Some bad plays, like tortoises, protect themselves by withdrawing everything-beginning, ending, and legs to stand on-under a shell of unassailable convention. Many Mansions' armor plate-the Church-does not succeed altogether in fending criticism from its vulnerabilities: its stiff dialogue, thin ideas, creaking earnestness. Nevertheless, the play's carapacious subject will probably save it from instant death...
...Scene I, a curly-haired youngster (Alexander Kirkland) gives up sweetheart and golf clubs when off-stage voices, quoting scripture, call him to the Church's service. Through 14 subsequent scenes, stern dominies keep this young, progressive zealot from his project of awakening the Church to "the demands of a changing world." They block his plan for a Church dance, they prevent his sheltering a pursued harlot, just as he has concluded that the Church is not all that it should be, his disapproving seniors unfrock him. He is glad...
...reporters hunted up Peter Smith, the beneficiary of the miracle, found him to be a clear-eyed youth, engaged in commuting daily to Manhattan's Cathedral College where he is a sophomore studying for the priesthood. Peter Smith's "wonder," cited as a reason why the Catholic Church should make a saint of Mother Cabrini. last week helped advance her one step on the long road to canonization. In the Vatican, Pope Pius XI and his Congregation of Rites approved the "heroic virtues" of the energetic, well-born nun, directed that she be called "Venerable...
Before Mother Cabrini may be beatified, with the title "Blessed," two or more new miracles must be performed through her intercession. Since the Church in its investigations must winnow authentic "wonders" out of hundreds of minor cases of coincidence, hysteria, or self-hypnosis, and even well-meaning fraud, the reputation of the candidate must become widespread so that thousands of faithful may actively pray for miracles to happen. Last week an organization called the Cabrini Cavaliers, formed last year, made ready to seek 100,000 petitioners for Mother Cabrini's early canonization...
Noel's Jesus. Father Conrad Noel, 68, is the Church of England's most famed and deepest-red radical. Grandson of the Earl of Gainsborough, he went to public schools, to Cambridge, to Chichester Theological College, and, he says, "completed my education in the doss-houses of South London." For 27 years Father Noel, an Anglo-Catholic, has been vicar of Thaxted, a small parish near Cambridge. Of his early days as priest he says: "At Thaxted I preached Socialism, and soon introduced a full Catholic Worship according to the old English rite. Some of my parishioners became...