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Shocked, Dean Noe said nothing as he accepted the bishop's verdict. The dean had been unable to go to a diocesan convention in Knoxville because, at the last minute, Mrs. Noe took ill, collapsed. Because of that convention, no weekday services were held in the Cathedral, and for the first time ousted Dean Noe went for a week without the communion bread & wine which had previously solaced, and partially nourished, him. Some 30 members of the parish were reported anxious to join him in his fast, but he attempted to discourage them. At week...
Presiding Bishop. A commission appointed by the last convention recommends that the Church's presiding bishop be elected permanently (to retire at 70) instead of every six years, be relieved of any diocesan jurisdiction and be made president of the Church's National Council, its business and missionary body. To call the presiding bishop an archbishop as was suggested in 1934, is neither recommended nor disapproved in the commission's report. Presiding Bishop Perry's term is up, and last week he was thought agreeable to being reelected. Other likely candidates: Bishop Cook, Bishop Hobson, Bishop...
...number of bells by a number of ringers, in mathematical sequence. This strenuous pastime, popular in England (see Dorothy Sayers' The Nine Tailors), involves varying the order of pealing bells so that no one succession of notes is repeated during the lengthy operation. In 1922 the Oxford Diocesan Guild and the Ancient Society of Youths rang 21,363 different changes at the rate of 28 a minute, a record...
...Liverpool Diocesan Review, the Right Rev. Albert Augustus David, Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, explained why baseball is "unsuited to the English temperament." Excerpts: "The backchat and calls of both players and spectators at a baseball match in America are something to be remembered when the play is forgotten. So far, English spectators of baseball have only learned the elementary calls of the game. If they ever learn the full phraseology of American baseball, we do not think "it will be long before its undesirable effects are seen at Association football matches...
...already blazing fire. The heaper was Chicago's erudite, 64-year-old Roman Catholic Archbishop, George William Cardinal Mundelein, who started life on Manhattan's lower East Side and early won renown as a youthful orator. Before 500 Catholic prelates and priests assembled for the quarterly diocesan conference at Quigley Preparatory Seminary, Cardinal Mundelein tore into the Nazi Government: "The fight is to take the [2,000,000 German] children away from us. ... Perhaps you will ask how it is that a nation of 60,000,000 people, intelligent people, will submit in fear and servitude...