Word: churches
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...ceremonial fuss over the election of a new Pope? I suppose it is because his position as president of the oldest existing corporation is regarded by millions of people as the world's biggest job. The Roman Catholic Church is said to be the wealthiest firm with one exception-the Coca-Cola Co.; then why not work up a similar degree of excitement over the appointment of a new president for that corporation or Standard Oil of New Jersey...
Meyner has some presidential handicaps. He was born a Catholic, left the church at 18 and has not joined another (whispers a Kennedy backer: "Meyner's not too popular among Catholics, you know"). He is hardly known outside New Jersey, and his rare ventures away from home have been singularly unfortunate. In a nine-state speaking tour last August, he chose a shirtsleeved Minnesota farm audience, ready to plow under Ezra Benson, to lecture on the subject of "The Current Congressional Inquiry into the Operation of the Federal Regulatory Agencies...
Five Latin American cardinals,*18 archbishops and 19 bishops met in Rome last week to find solutions for the Roman Catholic Church's imposing problems in Latin America. The prelates were attending a meeting of the Latin American Bishops' Council (CELAM), a church agency founded in Rio in 1955 to coordinate Roman Catholic activity in Latin America, held for the first time outside the hemisphere. They were joined in their sessions, held in the Latin American College on the banks of the Tiber, by high Vatican clergymen. Before the conference ended they were received by Pope John XXIII...
...John R. Murphy, a good Irish Catholic, Curley dressed up a few of his camp followers as priests and sent them across Charlestown and elsewhere bruiting it about that John R. Murphy had renounced his Catholic Faith, joined a Masonic Order, had been observed attending Back Bay's Trinity Church, and intended to divorce his good wife in order to marry a sixteen-year-old girl. As the campaign was drawing to its successful close, Curley asked a Roxbury audience, "Where was James Michael Curley last Friday night? He was conducting a political meeting in Duxbury. Where was Mr. Murphy...
...less prominent now than it was twenty-two years ago. He than wrote in The Nation, "The intolerance of the Irish politician in Boston for any sharing of politician in Boston for any sharing of political power or political liberties can be compared only to that of the early church magistrates of New England. Curley's regime is frankly racial beyond anything known else-where in America...