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...Thomas F. Gailor, Bishop of Tennessee, one of the best known ecclesiastics in the U. S. Neither of these men is likely to be elected to the new joint-office; the first, because he is 77 years old; the second, because he desires to return to his diocesan duties and literary pursuits. Dozens of candidates have been suggested-bishops such as Matthews of New Jersey, Brent of Western New York, Reese of Ohio, Freeman of Washington...
...Island, Bishop Perry; from Louisiana, Bishop Sessums; from Connecticut, Milwaukee, Albany, Virginia, each its Bishop. They clad themselves in robes of black and white. They went to Trinity Cathedral, sat down on a red-carpeted platform slightly lower than a presidential dais occupied by William A. Leonard, the venerable diocesan of Ohio. They were a court of appeal. They proceeded to hear the case of William Montgomery Brown, onetime bishop of Arkansas, now living in retirement in Galion, Ohio, who, some months since, had been pronounced a heretic by another court of bishops...
Naturally, such bodies as the Michigan Association of Private and Church Schools and the Diocesan School Committee have been objecting strenuously. Last week, Frank Cody, Superintendent of Detroit public schools and President of the State Board of Education, addressed a letter to the objectors: "I see no need for the proposed school amendment. . . . The existing school laws are adequate. . . . I do not believe in the spirit of the proposed amendment. It is un-American in character...
...Rome, Pope Pius offered a medal to that one of the Catholic Women's Diocesan Clubs that would evolve the most attractive modest fashion in women's clothing. The Clubs had inaugurated a campaign against immodest dress. The Pontiff's competition is divided into two parts: 1) a theoretic demonstration that immodest dress is silly, barbaric, uncultivated; 2) actual dress designs...
...ingenious device of "diocesan associations" is the diplomatic child of Cardinal Gasparri and Premier Poincare, skillfully nursed by Mgr. Ceretti, able nuncio at Paris. Under this arrangement, Church property will be controlled by a corporation in every diocese. The head of each corporation is a bishop. The bishop is subject to the Church. Thus, for practical purposes, the Church owns the property...