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...seminarian, at the North American College in Rome, was ordained priest there 33 years ago. Returning to Philadelphia, he became an ecclesiastical handyman and good personal friend of Denis Cardinal Dougherty. Father Corrigan worked among Italians, published a newspaper called La Verita, taught Dogmatic Theology at St. Charles, was diocesan censor of books, moderator of priests in conference, presiding judge of the diocesan matrimonial court and finally chancellor of the diocese. A brilliant preacher, lie made the principal address when Désiré Cardinal Mercier of Belgium visited Philadelphia in the autumn of 1919. For 14 years Monsignor Corrigan...
...affairs of his busy diocese this Prince of the Roman Catholic Church is "incorporated by law in order to give him legal capacities and advantages not possessed by natural persons." He is technically known as a "corporation sole," which means that he is the entire corporation with title to diocesan properties...
There are in that State 10,000 baptized Episcopalians, 6,000 communicants including Governor Charles Smith. Economist John Spargo is the Church's diocesan registrar. There is one deaconess...
...prosperity which set pious folk to building $200.000,000 worth of churches in 1929. But last week religious statisticians reported new money in sight, the first since church building came to a dead stop in 1931. Examples: C. In Trenton Episcopal Bishop Paul Matthews opened the annual New Jersey diocesan convention by breaking ground for a new $1.000,000 Trinity Cathedral. C, New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning, who has found some $140.000 to resume work on his Cathedral of St. John the Divine, proudly announced that the $30.000,000 edifice would be standing when every other building...
While Irish Senators debated whether to put colleens below the age of consent into "distinctive dresses", Scotch solons of Glasgow's Diocesan Council were apprised of "terrible moral conditions in Scotland" by their rapporteur on vital statistics, Major A. R. Haverfield...