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...Gothic gloom of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral house on Nob Hill, 115 clerical and 385 lay delegates elected him Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of California-slated to succeed Diocesan Bishop Karl Morgan Block when he retires next December. It took six ballots to do it. In Pike's favor were his age (44), moderate Low-Churchmanship and vigorous stand-taking as dean of New York City's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Against him were his ex-Roman Catholicism, the annulment of his first marriage and the same vigorous stand-taking...
...Paulists also went in heavily for American go-getting methods. In 1865 they established the first Catholic monthly in the U.S., the Catholic World (present circ. 25,000). They set up their own presses and bindery to turn out masses of books and pamphlets, persuaded the diocesan clergy to conduct missions to non-Catholics...
Boston's diocesan Catholic paper The Pilot quickly came back at Blanshard: "The three questions are expressed in a manner that misrepresents authentic Catholic teaching on the subject in question. Catholics have no 'boycott' of public schools: the American Catholic hierarchy have never made an 'attack...
Wrote Dr. Fisher in the monthly Canterbury Diocesan Notes: "Sin is an offence against God. Its measurements do not vary from age to age as man's laws do ... So then, whatever from time to time the criminal law may say, homosexual offences are sins; the life of a prostitute is a life of sin; the men, many of them regarded by themselves and others as reasonably respectable citizens and certainly not criminals, who add their own sin to the sin of the prostitute are sinners ... A crime is a different matter, a sin against society and social order...
English Painter Arthur Fretwell, 38, who makes a living as the art master of the church school at Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, received an interesting letter last January. It came from Nathaniel Montague. Lane, 68, the diocesan architect who designed the Anglican Church of Saint Mary the Virgin in the nearby coal-mining town of Mansfield. Architect Lane, with only limited funds, wanted to know if Fretwell would like to paint five pictures of incidents from the Virgin Mary's life for the church's gallery. There was only one condition: "The more controversial the panels are, the better...