Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marion, Ill., Catholics, ever fraternal, were drawn closer to each other one day last week. "Did you hear what happened last night?" they asked each other. Some person or persons-the police could not say who-had set a bomb on the basement steps of the church. It went off, ripped the basement steps, shattered windows, scattered suspicion...
...Bishop of Nashville, Tenn., last week came a strange suggestion to the nuns of his diocese. "Don't vote," he said in effect. His reason: the obvious hostile comment upon nuns' voting would be that they were helping to swell the Smith vote total and that the Church was massed for Smith; this he wished to avoid...
...sermons of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick usually are preached from his pulpit in the Park Avenue Baptist Church, Manhattan. He preaches to packed houses; it therefore is not easy to attend his church, but to gain admittance to the church proper the following instructions have been issued: attend the service in the men's auditorium, hear Dr. Fosdick's voice through an amplifier; sign a blank and receive a ticket for admission to the church proper on the following Sunday...
...unwritten dogma of the Protestant Episcopal Church commands the observance of the tenets of good taste. When the President & Mrs. Coolidge walked to the dais for the opening of the 49th triennial General Convention of the Church, they picked their way through a lane of approving smiles, nor was there handclapping, for the beating of palm upon palm, except as a signal to acolytes, is neither rubric nor good taste at a church ceremony. When it came time for the House of Deputies (lower legislative house of the convention) to elect a president, only three ballots were necessary to affirm...
When it came time to do something about the highly controversial subject of divorced persons and their status in the Church a commission was appointed to give ten years' study to divorce in general. For a decade, at least, official (and perhaps antagonizing) action was deferred thereby. This was in good taste...