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Married. Count Kocho Otani, 27, spiritual leader of Japan's 13,000,000 NishiHongwanji Buddhists; and Princess Yoshiko Tokudaiji, 19; by himself (no lesser churchman being deemed eligible); in Kyoto, Japan. Best man: Prince Fumimaro Konoe, president of the Japanese House of Peers. One hundred acolytes, 700 chanting priests, 20,000 communicants crowded the ceremony. At its conclusion the bride, wearing eleven kimonos, gave away 1,500,000 fans; the groom gave away 1,500,000 yen ($420,000). Wedding gifts: a castle from Nishi-Hongwanji followers, five kinds of fresh fish (harbingers of happiness) from Empress Nagako...
Lastly, Butler was never an atheist. He never ceased to regard himself as a 'Broad Churchman...
With the installation of Archbishop Martínez-a Mexican-educated friend of President Lázaro Cárdenas and a moderate, law-abiding churchman-Mexico's religious situation remained comparatively tranquil, the long-term outlook became more favorable to the Church than it had been in years. In Vera Cruz, where an unconstitutional statute forbidding any priest to exercise his office is still on the books, Catholics had opened ten churches, were negotiating to install ten priests. Father José Maria Flores, who stirred Vera Cruz Catholics to action when a 14-year-old girl had been...
...heartiest laugh in which Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin has indulged in many a long day came as Defense Minister Sir Thomas Inskip, a great churchman who received his appointment in part because of the influence of churchly Mrs. Baldwin, arose to address the House of Commons. Although it contains both male & female M. P.'s the Prime Minister could not avoid bursting into a loud guffaw as Sir Thomas, a tyro at politics but a veteran speaker at Sunday-school picnics, opened an address to the House of Commons with the unheard-of salutation: "Ladies and Gentlemen...
...reporting the conflict between Bishop Dougherty and Archbishop Aglipay, TIME had no intention of disparaging the latter able churchman or his friends. Welcoming Unitarian Cornish's extended mention of the Archbishop, TIME would hesitate, however, to call Aglipay's people "not of the Catholic faith." Bishop Dougherty considered them "lapsed Catholics," and in the case of the millions he brought back to the Church he would seem to have been right. Before Archbishop Aglipay became friends with Governor Taft, a Unitarian, he claimed that his Church was Catholic in everything save that it repudiated Rome, abandoned the confessional...