Word: churchmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frequent question to Roman Catholic churchmen is: why so great a proportion of Catholics in prison populations? In last week's issue of The Commonweal, urbane Catholic weekly, was a reply by Father John P. McCaffrey, Roman Catholic chap lain at Sing Sing. Chief point: prison populations mirror the localities upon which they draw. Father McCaffrey demonstrates by a section in Massachusetts, as follows...
Four years ago when Methodist Bishop Francis John McConnell was made president there were murmurings concerning his modernist liberality. The election of Dr. Beaven would cause no such quiverings U. S. Churchmen know him well as an evangelical leader, on the safe side despite his joining with other Federal Council committee members in approving the use of contraceptives. Born in Idaho, son of a British circuit rider. Baptist Beaven went to Shurtleff College (Alton, Ill.), studied for the ministry on the Pacific Coast while earning a living chopping wood and scraping barnacles from boats in Puget Sound. He studied...
England's great families furnish able politicians. Unlike great U. S. families, they also turn out great churchmen. Famed for political leaders is the house of Cecil, whose Lord Burghley served Queen Elizabeth and whose Marquess of Salisbury served Queen Victoria. Four of the great Salisbury's sons went into politics-the late Lord Edward (Egypt), the present Marquess (see p. 13), Lord Hugh (House of Commons), Lord Robert (League of Nations). A fifth son went into the church. Last September U. S. hostesses fluttered, U. S. churchmen threw open their pulpits, at the arrival...
...monastery. The only possible way to achieve this knowledge is by excavating the remains, and with the aid of available chairs, to reconstruct the buildings on paper. Moreover, the role of this church was considerable in the history of the tenth and eleventh centuries, having contributed many famous churchmen and having played an important part in the reformation of the Catholic Church, during the last years of the Dark Ages. The sculpture is most essential for a complete study of that particular style, and consequently, I hope to be able to reconstruct temporarily a part of the apse at full...
...county and town of Gastonia. N. C. (pop. 17,000), famed for its gory mill strike three years ago, are some 2,000 Greeks. Gastonia has also a Karyae Park, assembly grounds for the National Karyae (social and athletic organization). Last week 3,000 Greeks, including many prominent churchmen, editors and businessmen, gathered near Karyae Park to see dedicated Monastery St. Stephanos, first of its kind...