Word: churches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...judge by the action of Archbishop Edwin Vincent Byrne in threatening to deny the sacraments of Communion and confession to both Sue Simone Ingersoll and her mother for Sue's acts [July 20], then it would seem that the Roman Catholic Church has taken a leaf from Communism's book. It has learned how to punish an offender through the offender's loved ones...
Each time I read an article similar to yours concerning Sue Ingersoll and Archbishop Byrne, I am less disturbed over the fact that I and thousands of others are "falling away" from the Catholic Church each year...
Quinn had plenty of pushing room. Before long he was addressing meetings, joining the Community Chest (he later became chairman), becoming active in Roman Catholic Church groups. His trademark was his singing voice, and rare was the gathering that Quinn did not entertain with a sweet version of Ke Kali Nei Au, the old Hawaiian wedding song. "Boy," says one friend, "if there was a microphone in the room, you could bet that Bill Quinn would wind up in front...
...Dispatch, booming West Coast Negro paper, not only gained attention from his personal column, but also found their circulations boosted fast by Moslems who hawked the papers on street corners as a spiritual duty. Such leading Negro Harlem politicos as Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church) and Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack have curried Moslem favor, even though full-fledged Moslems are enjoined not to vote...
...debate on whether a Roman Catholic should be President is rolling right along-as is Senator John F. Kennedy's campaign for the Democratic nomination. In the Methodist Church of Edgartown, Mass, last week, Bishop John Wesley Lord explained why the prospect of a Catholic President worries him. "While we hold to the principle of respect for every individual, whatever his race or religion, because of the unique claims that the Roman Catholic Church makes for itself, we have the right and duty to ask some questions of a presidential aspirant." He proceeded to ask five...