Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...licence that prevails in that State. . . . We cannot condone laxity of morals whether in the individual or the State. Laws that facilitate the evasion of one's sacred duty to God and home should find no place in civilized society. We must not, however, be unmindful that while Nevada contributes to the state of delinquency, the other States contribute the delinquents, and if barbarism prevails in Nevada today, it is because the other States have failed in their task of civilizing the barbarian whose untamed and unbridled nature seeks surcease in that Utopian Mecca of ceaseless, seething marital confusion...
...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...
Bitterly he flayed "this cynical, scoffing self-willed generation that bows down before the idol of profit and production, that knows not God and prides itself in this ignorance; . . . its penitentiaries, enlarged and yet overcrowded; juvenile crime . . . divorce, with states like Nevada and Arkansas feverishly competing in the effort to make divorce easier, quicker and cheaper; apostles of free love and loose moral leaders . . . quicksand of companionate marriage, childless families . . . collapse of family felicity; our business world with its fraud and connivance . . . professional impurity . . . commercialized vice...