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...Published with the approving Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur of the Catholic diocese of Southwark, England, was At Your Ease in the Catholic Church, by Mary Perkins.* This work not only deals with manners in church but tells how to address a Cardinal, archbishop, bishop; what to give a priest or an ordinand as a present (a check is proper); when a Catholic may break rules against meat eating (example: a dinner where abstinence would embarrass the host); how a Catholic may best argue birth control, Communism, etc., with a non-Catholic. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: MANNERS IN CHURCH | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...lived for a brief period and fallen by the wayside. But the rather remarkable vitality of old Mother Advocate is not a quirk of pure fortune. That today she may look back upon an enviable record goes deeper than that. The tradition of "Duice est Periculm" and "Veritas nihil veretur" have been the essential strength of her life, for here at Harvard there has always been a real need for independent thinking. The Advocate has offered the undergraduate a medium for self expression, and has been able to encourage some of the most prominent thinkers and writers of today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seventy-Year Old Mother Advocate Offers Stimulating Opportunities | 10/17/1936 | See Source »

...story of the Earling exorcism, Begone Satan!, was written in German by a Rev. Carl Vogel, translated by a Benedictine named Rev. Celestine Kapsner, published at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minn, with the official imprimatur of Bishop Joseph F. Busch of St. Cloud and the Nihil Obstat of Monsignor John P. Durham. Hence it was presumed not to err in faith or morals. The Denver Register, whose editor, Monsignor Matthew J. W. Smith, splashed it on the front page of his weekly, was deluged with letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Exorcist & Energumen | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...show that is dead, nihil nisi bonum. The old people can have their brave talk of old plays; they can keep "The Pink Lady" green in memory. But if they love a show, let them not revive...

Author: By G. G. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/18/1932 | See Source »

Come live with me and my two daughters, Peaches! (Nisi nihil mortus) I'll renta car and tell reporters That where we go, they shall escort...

Author: By V. O. J., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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