Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...million lire ($39,225,000) and a certificate for one billion lire ($52,300,000) of Italian State bonds. In the Hall of Congregations, standing beneath an exquisite ivory crucifix, Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, hands folded, waited to receive money and bonds and exchange formally with Signer Mussolini the State-&-Church reconciliation treaty signed by them both last February (TIME, Feb. 18). After a brief, courteous exchange of duplicate texts of the treaty, last of diplomatic formalities, the Papal State, recognized by Italy, became an independent state, like Liechtenstein and Monaco...
Last week, en route to Mexico, Dwight Whitney Morrow rode from Washington to San Antonio on the same train with Mexican Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, head of the Mexican Hierarchy. The venerable prelate, because of violent trouble between Church and State, had left Mexico a year before. Now, as delegate of a Pope who not only is Vicar of Christ but also a free sovereign, he was returning to discuss with Mexico's President Portes Gil the possible soothing of those troubles. Probably the Archbishop and the Ambassador talked. Possibly the Ambassador, as a U. S. Statesman, said...
Diffident hintings from both Mexican government and Catholic hierarchy have suggested many points of possible compromise in the vexed problem of Mexico's religious laws (TIME, May 13, et seq.) Trustworthy seemed the report that the Vatican had agreed to recognize government ownership of Church property if the Church were made official guardian of the same...
...Minister; as president of the Chicago Theological Seminary; as Moderator of the National Congregational Council. Reason: serious illness.* Dr. Carl Safiord Patton, homiletic and practical theology professor, was elected to succeed Dr. Davis to the presidency. But he declined, preferring instead the pastorate of Los Angeles' First Congregational Church, whereupon his 1,750 new parishioners assembled, cheered in unison, voted a new million-dollar church...
Last week in the Vatican a huge intricately carved bronze door, one half of which had been closed since 1870, was slowly pushed wide open. Thus by symbolism, long a power and fascination of the Roman Catholic Church, did Pope Pius XI announce to the world and to the city the consummation of Italy's Church-&-State reconciliation, the ultimate and formal exchange of signed treaties...