Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Papal Court by Thomas B. Morgan (Longmans, Green, $3) published last week. As might be guessed, fact is that no other correspondent has ever combined such a keen American nose for newsy Papal intimacies with such a respectful Roman nose for bowing reverence to the Holy Apostolic Roman Catholic Church. It is a credit to the intelligence of the Holy See that Mr. Morgan was granted in 1929 what was then the first and is still the only exclusive interview ever given to a journalist by Pius...
Died. Archbishop Simeon, 98, Orthodox Archbishop of Varna and Preslav, Bulgaria ; of pneumonia; in Sofia. He took part in Bulgaria's struggle for freedom from Turkey, in the fight for an independent Bulgarian church, was one of the drafters of the Bulgarian constitution...
Lackadaisical U. S. church attendance, and related problems facing U. S. ministers, made news last week as follows...
...Hyannis, Mass., Rev. Carl F. Schultz of the Federated Church listed six causes for empty church pews: Rest, Radio, Riding, Relatives, Roomers...
...Atlantic City, N. J., Headmaster Frank Ely Gaebelein of Stony Brook (L. I.) School for Boys told a Methodist Protestant conference that little more than 25% of 49,000,000 U. S. young people have ever been in a church. Recent questionnaires, he said, showed that 16,000 of 55,000 school children had never heard of the Ten Commandments; only 2,000 of 18,000 students could name four biblical prophets, only 6,000 the four gospels, only 8,000 any three of Christ's disciples. Headmaster Gaebelein's remedy: "Revive the family altar and the reading...