Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lady or gentleman will chew gum in Church...
...Published with the approving Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur of the Catholic diocese of Southwark, England, was At Your Ease in the Catholic Church, by Mary Perkins.* This work not only deals with manners in church but tells how to address a Cardinal, archbishop, bishop; what to give a priest or an ordinand as a present (a check is proper); when a Catholic may break rules against meat eating (example: a dinner where abstinence would embarrass the host); how a Catholic may best argue birth control, Communism, etc., with a non-Catholic. Excerpts...
...siege of Pampeluna in 1521, a French cannon ball whizzed between the legs of a Basque knight named Íñigo de Oñez y Loyola, breaking his right shin and tearing his left calf. For the Roman Catholic Church, beleaguered by the Protestant Reformation, that shot was providential. Íñigo, laid up in his castle (and ever after afflicted with a limp), began thinking pious thoughts which led him, in 1534, to form a "flying squadron," the Society of Jesus, in the front ranks of the Church's Counter Reformation against Protestantism...
...that time, the Basque was known by the Latinized name of Ignatius. Of this austere, astute, self-styled "captain" in Christ's army, many pious biographies have been written. Published this week is Soldier of the Church,* first attempt to bring Ignatius Loyola to life for ordinary readers. Its author, Ludwig Marcuse, is a German-Jewish exile, biographer of Heine and Strindberg. His viewpoint: a middle course between Catholic orthodoxy and non-Catholic skepticism...
Shenandoah. Huddled in a fold in the Pennsylvania hills, with bulbous Greek Catholic church domes rising over wooden houses, this once-prosperous anthracite town is rusty, dingy, mournful, too melodramatic to be desolate. The Shenandoah City Colliery, its windows broken, its stacks smokeless, is a wild ruin; Stief's Cut Rate Drug and Quick Lunch occupies the banking room of the defunct Shenandoah Trust Co. But once John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, rode triumphantly up Main Street. Joseph Beddal was killed during the strike of 1902 trying to smuggle arms to strikebreakers besieged in the Reading...