Word: heathendom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly two thousand years the Roman Catholic Church has waged an unending spiritual war. Against heathendom, against heresy, the Church has not ceased from moral strife. Last week, when its Princes met in Rome to choose a new Pope, the Church's war against heresy-the totalitarian heresies of Left and Right -had reached a critical point...
...flock by suspending temporarily the "non-Aryan clause," but non-Nazi pastors rallied 3,000 strong to denounce the Nazi "German Christians." Risking reprisals from Nazi Storm Troopers, they read out from 3,000 pulpits throughout the Reich a stinging protest directed, by implication, at the Nazi State itself. "Heathendom has penetrated into the bosom of our church," they read. "Many Christians have to submit their consciences to human leaders, in contradiction of the essence of the Church...
...spite of his (assumed) name, Author "R. Hernekin Baptist's" good words are all for heathendom. But he regards heathen nature (especially female) with a civilized and curious eye, makes much of natural facts not usually dwelt upon so lovingly. Publishers Cape & Smith will not divulge Author "Baptist's" real name but they admit he is English, assert he is "very famous...
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