Word: papally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crabwise march God's churches, usually, as they creep slowly toward Christian Unity. For believers in this great concept, to which the Roman Catholics alone offer a great obstacle (papal supremacy), last week was an active one. Churchmen took two steps forward, only one step backward...
...Papal Claims-The Church is still bound to resist Roman Catholic claims of authority, but some Anglicans envision Christendom reunited under a papacy renouncing some of its present claims...
Meanwhile in the French Concession at Shanghai two Chinese disguised as orange peddlers assassinated one of China's leading businessmen and her leading Christian philanthropist. Joseph Lo Pa-hong, Knight of the French Legion of Honor, Papal Knight-Commander of the Order of St. Sylvester, etc. Last November 11, the Catholic sisters of Maryknoll, Ossining, N. Y., received a cable from the sisters of their Mercy Hospital for the Insane near Shanghai reading: "Can you send money for food? Lo bankrupt." Mr. Lo, who had long supported Mercy Hospital, had slid from being one of the richest...
...Pope Leo XIII, Countess Anna Laetitia ("Mimi") Pecci-Blunt received her first communion at the hands of the Pontiff himself. Her father, Count Camillo Pecci, was Commander of the Noble Guards of the Vatican and a leader of the "Blacks" who, before Conciliation with Mussolini in 1929, upheld the Papal Court in Roman society against the "Whites" who honored the King. Her mother was the Spanish Marquesa des Bueno, descendant of an illustrious 15th Century defender of Granada against the Moors. In 1919 a Papal legate in Paris performed the ceremony which united "Mimi" with an Englishman named Cecil Blunt...
...hands. Father Chornock was named bishop of a new, dissident faction, to be called the Carpatho-Russian Greek Catholic Diocese of the Eastern Rite, U. S. A. Bishop-elect Chornock's diocese was born when 36 of Bishop Takach's priests petitioned him to appeal the second papal order. Father Chornock and five other clergy were excommunicated by the Vatican. By last week their faction had grown to include 40 parishes, drew 300 lay and clerical delegates to a convention in Pittsburgh...