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When Pope Pius XI mounts to the roof of the Vatican he sees, on Monte Mario a mile to the north, something which vexes him. It is the Collegio Internazionale, Methodist institution. Of all Protestant denominations in Italy the Methodists have made themselves most disturbing to the Holy See by aggressive evangelism...
Antipathy to Methodist (and to slightly less extent Baptist) activities in Italy inspired the Pope's recent denunciation of Protestant proselytizing (TIME. July 14). Last week he proceeded beyond mere denunciation. He organized a defensive-offensive body, the Pontifical Organization for Preservation of the Faith and for the Provision of New Churches in Rome. As president of this militant religious police His Holiness appointed newly-hatted Francesco Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani, 58, and instructed him to work in close co-operation with Basilio Cardinal Pompili, vicar-general of Rome. Well equipped is Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani for his new assignment. Born...
Pursuant to instructions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South's, general conference at Dallas last spring (TIME, May 26, et seq.), Bishop Edwin DuBose Mouzon of Charlotte, N. C. sailed into Rio de Janeiro's mountain-shadowed harbor last week. A motor procession carried him and his party to a conference with important Brazilian Methodists. They at once began to write a constitution for a Methodist Church of Brazil. Just arrived from Europe with his new wife and meeting them was Bishop James Cannon Jr., the Southern Methodists' missionary bishop of Brazil, as well as chairman...
...still the Wet cry of "sumptuary legislation," a dozen potent Drys representing the Anti-Saloon League, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals and the Committee of One Thousand last week issued a joint declaration of policy through the Christian Herald...
...Stegg of Manila, P. I., reached Chicago last week to attend the Chicago Methodist Camp Meeting. Quickly he inspected the community, made a conclusion: ''Chicago is the most godless city in the world. . . . The fault lies not with flaming youth, but with men and women in their foolish, fat forties. Forty per cent of Chicago high school girls disapprove of petting. That is better than they did in my day, all of 30% better...