Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the German Government gave the Jews a final turn of the screw last winter, many an observer predicted that the Roman Catholic Church would be next on the rack-put there by Nazis covetous of its big German properties. Up to last week, however, Adolf Hitler was too busy on other fronts to pay much attention either to the Catholic or to the German State Protestant churches. Meanwhile Nazis continued locally to close down religious schools and chivy the clergy. Vexatiously chivied last week was the Archbishop of Salzburg, onetime confessor to Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungary. The State...
Other skirmishes of State and Church...
...State-supported German Evangelical Church issued a new declaration of principles: "Every supranational or international churchdom of Roman Catholic or world-Protestant stamp is a political debasement of Christianity. . . . The Christian faith is the unbridgeable religious opposition to Jewry. . . . [National Socialism's fight] is on the philosopho-political side the continuance and completion of the work which the German reformer Martin Luther began...
...recent months the Irish Republican Army has terrorized England with many a bombing. Last week the Roman Catholic hierarchy of England and Wales unlimbered its biggest gun against the I.R. A.-threat of excommunication. In a statement read in all Catholic churches in Britain, the hierarchy declared: "Among the causes of the present unrest are workings of certain secret societies. The church sternly condemns all societies which plot against the church or state. They are guilty of crime against human society. Members of such secret societies incur excommunication...
...Chicago, the Pastor of the Edgewater Presbyterian Church was overjoyed to notice that every Sunday there were fewer empty seats. He grew angry when he discovered that Church Janitor George Wedell had gradually stolen 219 chairs, sold them for 29? apiece...