Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aimee McPherson tried, years ago, to start a church here, but she was told to flit! The GREAT I AM did not originate here either, nor did the $30 every Thursday...
...Seeking publicity for their forthcoming production of that aged melodrama, The Drunkard, four University of Oklahoma boys staggered down the aisle of an Oklahoma City church waving a whiskey bottle, threw a State W. C. T. U. convention into an uproar. Amid screaming and fainting women, police arrived and dragged the drunks off to jail. There, when.it transpired that the whiskey was coffee, the jag a joke, the four students were let off. Said one of them: ''It was the biggest act of my career, and before the most unsympathetic audience...
...confused with Georgetown University (Jesuit) in Washington, D. C. †A creedless church, often called "Campbellite" after one of its founders. Many disciples believe that baptism is in itself a saving ordinance; all Baptists, that it is only symbolic, showing that the believer is already saved...
...Italian civil and military officials may not marry foreigners; that other Italians may marry foreigners only with permission of the Ministry of the Interior. These decrees incensed the Holy See. In practice the number of marriages involved is small; but in theory the laws violate the 1929 concordat between Church and State. By that concordat. Italy recognizes the validity of all marriages contracted in Roman Catholic churches...
Last week the Vatican Osservatore Romano pointed out that, "by the rights that God Himself conferred, which the Church grants to all her children without discrimination," the Church holds it her mission to sanctify marriages-including those between Catholics of different races -which are valid under canon law. The Osservatore revealed that before the Italian decrees were published "the august person of the Holy Father himself intervened directly with two paternal letters, one addressed to the head of the Government, the other to the King-Emperor." Last week Pius XI presumably had no reply from Mussolini. King Vittorio Emanuele, however...