Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pius XI?Ambrogio Domieno Achille Ratti, like the ninth Pius at the time of his death, is prisoned in the Vatican. Toward him no greedy Kings or Emperors cast envious eyes. The Catholic Church may own many lands but the Pope does not own any. Herein may lie subject matter for a Council...
...concerned they are not to marry people in church who have not been baptized. I have been criticized and called a narrow-minded ecclesiastic, and been told that I ought to be stopped. Well, stop me. I am going on until I am stopped...
...going to be a party, if I can help it, to anyone being married by Church service who has been divorced. "I am not going to make the word of God a blasphemous farce [by condoning divorce]. No man has a right to ask a bishop to be a party to any such disgusting and gross act of blasphemy. If you don't like it, go to a register office and say 'I will take you until you make life absolutely impossible, and then I will be done with you.' That is the honest thing...
...gentle rustle of satisfaction animated the starched silks of the ladies of the Fifth Avenue (Manhattan) Baptist Church when the erect, square-shouldered law clerk strode down the aisle to take his seat. "There," they whispered to one another, "is the Good Young Man of our church." And later, when they walked home with their children, they were apt to say: "Winfield, I wish you wouldn't keep your hands in your pockets. He never does."Or, again:"Ulysses, don't hang your head. Stand up straight, as he does...
This was in the Elegant Eighties. A decade passed, and another young man, walking down the same aisle, awakened even gentler, more contented rustlings. For while a church is properly proud of a Good Young Man, no bounds are set to its love of a Good Young Man who is also Rich. And this particular young man was so very Rich, and promised in time to be so incredibly Rich, that all Baptists everywhere thought of him with gushing Christian tenderness...