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...were set forth last week in the Protestant press. For one thing, Mr. Stearns had once possessed a vigorous Protestant Episcopal faith; had, in fact, graduated from the General Theological Seminary, Manhattan, became rector of Christ Church, Sheffield, Mass. A "convert to Romanism,"** he had then gone to a Jesuit college...
Outside St. Peter's in Rome there were strange scenes, last week. In fiendish war-paint, a band of Iroquois Indians fell upon canoeing Jesuit priests, slashed them with knives, bit out their fingernails, grilled their soles on glowing tomahawks - all on large banners which decorated the main entrance to the church...
Roman Catholic Church suffers no compromise on this question. America, Jesuit weekly, printed an article which concluded: "So it is that notice is served upon America that the 'detestable thing' for which God slew Onan is to be worked for on political grounds. . . . The activity of these propagandists upon so-called scientific and humanitarian grounds seems loudly to call for a more active defense of civic integrity and personal purity against these Shavian-Wellsian-Sanger ian-Onanists who work to defile the temple of the Holy Ghost." The Commonweal, organ of the Calvert Society, replied to Margaret Sanger...
...professional religion, as in professional politics, sagas are kept alive. Last week, America, Jesuit weekly, took occasion to address itself to the Roosevelt-Pope episode-apropos of the publication of the syndicated Roosevelt-Lodge letters...
Commented the Jesuit weekly's writer : "The condition for an audience imposed by the Holy Father on non-Catholic Americans was, in view of the evident facts, most proper. . . . For years they [Methodists] had acted worse than blackguards. . . . The Vatican in such a case can take no risk in safeguarding the dignity of the Vicar of Christ...