Word: priestly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Truth, like murder, will out eventually, has, as a matter of fact, come out in this matter already. When the Church, of which this priest is a member, makes public the fact that he does not represent its views on this subject, when the Dec. 30 issue of The Commonweal publishes two articles by high Catholic Churchmen blasting his statements, when outstanding Protestant ministers and laymen have condemned such vicious un-Americanism, how long are people going to listen to such guff from the head of the discredited Social Justice political party...
...many memorials to Pope Pius XI, dead last week, least famed but most lofty perhaps is the Ratti Route, an Alpine trail on the way from Chamonix to the top of Mont Blanc (15,781 ft.), so named to commemorate the feat of Achille Ratti and a fellow priest, Monsignor Luigi Grasselli, two of the most adventurous mountain climbers in Italian history, who first blazed the trail in 1890. Another monument to the Pope's Alpine enthusiasm: a stone tablet in a little church at Macugnaga, at the foot of Monte Rosa, celebrating the first conquest of its highest...
...Lauri, Grand Penitentiary of the Holy Roman Church, Pius XI, propped up by pillows, whispered his confession, received absolution for his sins. Then attendants washed the Pope's face, hands and feet for their anointing in the last rite: extreme unction. The Monsignor Sacristan, Alfonso de Romanis, parish priest of the Vatican, sprinkled the still room and its grave company with holy water. "Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, 0 Lord, and I shall be cleansed...
...horsy communities, Anglican and Episcopal priests commonly bless foxhounds on St. Hubert's Day (November 3). At least one Manhattan night club has been blessed by a Russian Orthodox priest - Prince Serge Obolensky's Maisonette Russe. Besides blessing persons...
...Roman Catholic. Two and a half years ago he became a sponsor of the Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy. St. Louis' Jesuit trustees were annoyed. When, year and half ago, the committee sponsored a pro-Loyalist speech in St. Louis by an allegedly unfrocked Irish priest, Michael O'Flanagan, St. Louis' Catholic Club and Archbishop John J. Glennon were more than annoyed; they demanded that Dr. Fleisher resign from the group of sponsors. Dr. Fleisher disavowed responsibility for the priest's remarks, refused to resign. Last week, as Dr. Fleisher was bounced...