Word: gormanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shepherd, the embroidered mitre which is "a helmet of protection and salvation that the wearer may seem terrible to the opponents of truth," the two small gold & silver casks of wine and golden loaves of bread which are the offerings of the faithful to its priesthood, Dr. Thomas Kiley Gorman last week donned a pair of white kid gloves (as did Jacob who covered his hands with skins of kid), was blessed and became the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Reno, Nevada...
Least populous of States, Nevada was the last to have no Catholic diocese of its own. His Holiness Pope Pius XI gave it one last April, appointed Dr. Gorman to be Bishop. Born in Pasadena, Calif, in 1892, Dr. Gorman had taken the degree Doctor of Historical Sciences at the University of Louvain, Belgium, had been assigned to several Southern California parishes, had edited since 1926 the diocesan paper Tidings. Consecrated in St. Vibiana Cathedral in Los Angeles (he will be installed in Reno this month), he was the first local priest to be elevated to the episcopacy...
Newshawks soon asked Bishop Gorman the obvious question: what did he think of divorce and gambling in his see city? His sharp brown eyes gleamed, but he would make no comment. Was he a liberal? A reply came from Rev. Bernard J. Dolan, chancellor of the diocese of Los Angeles and San Diego: "If he were a liberal he would not have been consecrated Bishop! We hear voices raised all over the land in protest and horror of the licence that prevails in that State. . . . We cannot condone laxity of morals whether in the individual or the State. Laws that...
...Catholic Reno paid practically no attention to the news that Bishop Gorman was to be installed there. Catholics were pleased, but although they are the largest denomination in Nevada (as they are throughout the Southwest except in Mormon Utah) they are not imposing in number: only 8,447 communicants. There are no Catholic officials in the city of Reno. There were none among the supporters of Nevada's six-week divorce law last March...
Coach Janvrin seems to have a wealth of battery material and may start either Gorman, Lainer, Sprague, or Taylor on the hill...