Word: clergyman
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...what new norms of logic does Archbishop Mitty conclude that the News is bigoted because it reveals that a Catholic clergyman is capable of sin? If the Church in the archdiocese of San Francisco is so decrepit that it will totter if it becomes known that one of its priests woos John Barleycorn, Pope Pius would do well to appoint a capable successor to Archbishop Mitty...
...least popularized the most famous lie in U.S. history: the fable of George Washington and the cherry tree. As revived by Van Wyck Brooks in The World of Washington Irving, the Rev. Mason Locke Weems appears to have been an attractive and useful citizen. A cheerful, ruddy-faced clergyman who had given up his parish to become a book agent (the Episcopal Church in the South was demoralized after the Revolution), Parson Weems for 31 years bounced over the early U.S. roads with his Jersey wagon loaded with good books. He carried a quill pen stuck...
Rich Emily subsidized a Home for destitute girls. Mr. Condon, the Episcopalian clergyman who ran the Home, came to get another $10,000. "The little I have will go to Margaret when I am gone," said Emily, stroking Margaret's hand. But a few days later Emily went to see Roger Sherman's stamp collection. He whispered: "Dear Emily, I think of you as a lily, swaying on its stem. . . . Let me be your knight. . . . We shall seek for ... truth, together." "What if we don't find it?" asked Emily gloomily. But Roger knew she had accepted...
During World War I, when she was subbing as the editor for her husband, a Quitman clergyman used his churchly influence to wheedle a local grocer out of more than his Hooverized share of flour. The news leaked, and Quitman's food administrator cracked down on the parson. The scandal rocked the town. A Quitman banker, chief elder of the church, ordered Miss Edna to write an editorial denouncing the food administrator. She laughed him out of her office. Next day came word that the bank was going to foreclose a loan on the Free Press. When this news...
They have heard one of the most ringing affirmations of Christian faith yet uttered by any U.S. Protestant clergyman in World...