Word: churchmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unquestionably the greatest of U. S. churchmen, Cardinal Gibbons was a Renaissance scholar-statesman-priest in a U.S. pioneer background. Born in Baltimore in 1834, he was chaplain to Federal troops during the Civil War. In 1868 he was appointed Missionary Bishop to the new Vicariate Apostolic of North Carolina, never forgot his welcome in Wilmington: a torchlight procession of drunken negroes, exulting in their new freedom. Youngest Bishop in his church at the Vatican Council of 1870, he became Archbishop of Baltimore in 1877, Cardinal...
Calling their union the largest ever to take place between denominations entirely distinct in origin and history,* churchmen hoped its consummation would move other denominations to merge, perhaps later to join with them...
Without actually saying it in so many words, Lewis Browne has based his history of Christianity on the assumption that the Church is aged, weakening. Some modern readers, few modern Churchmen will agree with...
...certain towns on Corpus Christi Day Fascists paraded with placards reading: "Our Parade Is In Honor Of Those Churchmen Who Do Not Meddle In Politics...
...represented in the two larger U. S. Presbyterian bodies got after the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America last week. Immediate excitement of attack was the Federal Council's recent report to the 27 Protestant Churches for which it performs social research, that U. S. churchmen advised a tolerant attitude toward Birth Control (TIME, March...