Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...words "crafty priest." As I know the gentleman personally, I cannot for the life of me understand on what you based your right to this insinuation. Perhaps it is due to the loose and superficial manner of many journalists when they approach anything pertaining to the old Church, utterly disregarding the ordinary obligations of man to man; it should be discarded...
...bright young boy, one of the great advantages of being brought up in the Greek Orthodox Church is that you have two birthdays-your own real birthday and your name day, the day in the Church calendar assigned to your patron saint. Last week cannons booming at dawn woke Bucharest to help celebrate little King Mihai's real birthday, his eighth. In, the ornate National Cathedral, His Majesty, proud of his first long trousers, marched up the aisle with green-&-gold Generals to hear a Te Deum, marched down again to review two squadrons of the royal bodyguard...
...Segura, his mother a Saenz, so they called him (by old Spanish custom) Pedro Segura y Saenz. Little did his parents guess, as they stood beside the font at his baptism some 49 years ago, that their swarthy infant would one day be a great one of the Church. The diocese of Burgos, Spain, saw his birth. Burgos saw him consecrated as its Archbishop. But only a secret consistory of his peers in the Vatican last week saw Pope Pius XI confer on Burgos' Archbishop the red hat of the cardinalate, making him the titular priest of Rome...
...comment on Bishop Jones' statement that patriotism and nationalism were opposed to the teachings of the church, the Rev. Evarts said: "The flag stands for the love of country, and the love of country is not in my opinion inconsistent with the Christian religion and the love...
Bishop Jones has said, in part, that "today we have two religions, the religion of nationalism and the religion of the church. It is impossible for a man to worship at both altars. "Nationalism has its symbol,--the flag; the church has the cross; nationalism has its national anthem and the church its hymns. Often the flag supersedes the church as when people rise when the national anthem is sung and often remain sitting when hymns are played...