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Within, seated, there was silence. The Archbishop of Canterbury rose, 78, gaunt; intoned: "Pater noster . . ."* Before him, on a stand, was a pale green-covered book. This book, said he, was the Alternative Prayer Book, which the bishops of the Church of England recommended be adopted in place of the Book of Common Prayer. English culture had changed considerably since the present prayer book was authorized -in 1662, and a prayer book should be consonant with today's needs. This Alternative Prayer Book was "permissive only." A priest could use the altered prayers, if he pleased and his congregation...
...prize of $50 is to be awarded to the writer of the best translation into Attie Greek of the passage in chapter one of Walter Pater's "Plato and Platonism", beginning with the lines, "Plato has seemed to many" and ending with "elements of a preconceiyed opinion...
...they realize the utter no tense of medals, knighthoods,--labels, as they put it. Tom returns from the "conchy" camp at Boulogne, half-starved. The Father, entrenching himself behind his knighthood, declares that he will oust the "conchy" from his home. When his two other children, disgusted with their pater's pre-war outlook, declare they will go too if he persists, the absolute breach between the pre-war generation and the post-war becomes only too apparent and it is the significance of this breach that Major Gibbs then drives home. He terms it "the meaning...
...pondered, ordered suspended recently elaborate preparations for the international congress of Catholic sport associations in Rome, because Roman Catholic processions had been jostled by Fascist youths at Mantua and Macerata. Last week Athletic Secretary Thibaudeau of the French Catholic gymnastic societies obtained an interview with the Sanc-tissimus Pater, returned to Paris, talked...
Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti (Pope Pius XI) announced last week that, in view of the Mexican crisis, he would postpone his vacation. As everyone knows, the Sanctissimus Pater, goes vacationing each year, despite his self-imposed "imprisonment," by moving out from the stuffy Vatican to his cool Casino in the Vatican Gardens. During the week Bishop Diaz of Tabasco, Mexico, displayed to newsgatherers a communication from the Papal Secretary of State, Pietró Cardinal Gasparri, conveying the displeasure of His Holiness with the Mexican Constitution and President Calles' enforcement statutes: "The Holy See condemns these laws (TIME, July...