Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such a view was not surprising among followers of the Saintly German peasant whose ecclesiastical reveries, nailed on a church door at Wittenberg four centuries ago, divided all Germany (and many another country later) into Protestant and Catholic political parties...
...after the Lutherans published their resolution, Nominee Smith, in a New Year's message to U. S. Jewry, published these balanced phrases: "The separation of Church and State is a fundamental American principle. The pursuit of virtue sanctioned by religion is at the basis of any civilized State...
...Jesus came to New York today, He would not be identified with any . . . Rotary club," said the Rev. John A. Vollenweider, associate pastor of the Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal church. "He [Christ] . . . was mindful of the need of those who were rich in this world's goods, but had a sense of spiritual poverty...
Such, in excerpt, are the authentic words wherewith a Christian may be thoroughly damned by the Roman Catholic Church. But not every Catholic who is excommunicated is damned so wholeheartedly. There are degrees. For example, M. Maurice Pujo, famed Managing Editor of the French Royalist newspaper L'Action Française (TIME, July 4, 1927 and Dec. 19), was permitted to be married at Paris last week, in the vestry of a Roman Catholic Church, although not long ago he was excommunicated (TIME, April...
Lest the damned bridegroom should trespass into the church itself, it was roped off. But ropes were quickly lowered to facilitate the exit from the Church of a Most Catholic wedding guest, Her Royal Highness, Marguerite de MacMahon, Duchesse de Magenta, nee Princesse d'Orleans, sister of the Pretender to the Throne of France. Apparently the Princess had blundered into the Church, looking for the wedding, which she later attended in the Vestry...