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Indomitable Divines. Scottish clerical dignitaries vigorously protested, last week, against the scheduled date of the British General Election, May 30. They pointed out that from May 21 clear up through Election Day the minds of pious Scots will or ought to be engrossed in following the proceedings of the annual assembly of the National Church of Scotland. Campaign speeches at such a time could scarcely please God, reasoned the Scottish divines, and in both Edinburgh and Glasgow devout headline writers wrote...
Huddled close together for warmth in the pews of the village church at Buchau, pious farmer folk heard their beloved pastor explain from the pulpit, last week, why Europe has been visited with the coldest winter of the century...
...according to Senator Jones, was to combat large scale "bootlegging" operations. By a special provision "the courts are to discriminate between casual or slight violations and so called regular bootlegging or attempts to commercialize violations of law". This latter provision has no legal effect since it is but a pious exhortation to the judges to be nice to the amateur offender and to be severe on the individual engaged in the liquor business. But that of course is what courts do anyway and it is submitted that there is no remedy if a particularly "dry" judge should visit a youthful...
Commenting afterward upon the new treaty, His Holiness exclaimed in vibrant tones of pious emotion: "It gives God back to Italy, and Italy to God!" Of Benito Mussolini, who made the treaty possible, Pope Pius mystically observed: "There was revealed to us a man whom Providence caused us to meet...
...Grant viewed Bishop McConnell with pious but vigorous alarm. In fact, he said, he would like "to set in motion an effort that will speedily rid the Council [Federal Council of Churches] of such a dangerous leader, or to insist upon our church absolutely withdrawing from the Council...