Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roman Catholic Church has long made it an earthly policy to tolerate any form of government under which it is free to pursue its mission. Toleration does not, of course, constitute endorsement or support. Last October, however, Pope Pius XI, taking into account the recent course of world events came near to praising democracy. In a message to the U. S. hierarchy for the golden jubilee of the Catholic University in Washington he wrote...
...Berlin Mission Society (Protestant) has founded a trading company, South African Motors, Import and Industries, Ltd., made a deal with the Government. Its missionaries sell German goods abroad. The Reich treasury gets most of the foreign exchange thus obtained, the missions get a slight commission...
Last week the Vatican Osservatore Romano pointed out that, "by the rights that God Himself conferred, which the Church grants to all her children without discrimination," the Church holds it her mission to sanctify marriages-including those between Catholics of different races -which are valid under canon law. The Osservatore revealed that before the Italian decrees were published "the august person of the Holy Father himself intervened directly with two paternal letters, one addressed to the head of the Government, the other to the King-Emperor." Last week Pius XI presumably had no reply from Mussolini. King Vittorio Emanuele, however...
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Cordell Hull and a large diplomatic party will depart from here tomorrow at 11 a.m., on an historic mission designed to preserve the American continent as an "island of peace" amid a politically storm-tossed world. They are going to the eighth conference of American states at Lima...
...Janet Gaynor is cast in the role of Nancy, a wide-eyed little bumpkin who comes to New York, churns her own butter, smiles at strange men and strikes a note of innocence and simplicity in the empty, superficial lives of her aforementioned loves. Although Miss Gaynor takes her mission a little too seriously and detracts from what was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek farce, the film is thoroughly enjoyable. Very nearly as good is "Time Out For Murder," in which a reporter (Michael Whalen) solves an involved but ingenious murder. Chick Chandler, as Mr. Whalen's photographer...