Word: priestly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speech against anti-Semitism by pompous little Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York, Streicher's organ Der Sturmer declared: "If Christ were again to come to earth and heard Bishop Manning he would say 'this Bishop Manning is an ally of Jews. He is a pseudo-priest, a wolf in sheep's clothing and a twofold child of hell.' That is what Christ would say and he would take a whip and drive Bishop Manning from the temple...
...Pittsburgh last week, Rev. James R. Cox, plump priest who once led a "jobless army" to Washington and announced himself a "Jobless Party" candidate for President of the U. S. in 1932, hit an unforeseen snag in a campaign by which he had hoped to raise $20,000 to pay the debts of his new St. Patrick's Church. Father Cox, who in 1935 charged people 25? apiece to see a "miraculous" image of Christ formed in soot on a chimney which he had transported to Pittsburgh from a coal miner's shack in Collier, Pa., lately thought...
...anyone who sent him $1, Father Cox mailed a "St. Christopher Miraculous Medal" and a blank on which to suggest three names for the garden of St. Patrick's Church. The priest hired a promoter, one B. J. Clifford of Cleveland, and 25,000 people entered the contest. Said the Christian Century, best-edited U. S. Protestant weekly: "Not even a 'miraculous medal' can perform the miracle of transforming this sort of traffic into anything other than a disgrace to the church...
...July Yugoslavia refused to renew Reuters' Harrison's residential permit after he had lived in Yugoslavia 14 years. Powerful because his Slovene Clerical Party was one of the three strong units welded into the present Government Party, Minister of Home Affairs Dr. Anton Koroshets, a Jesuit priest, resented Mr. Harrison's July accounts which described the Government's vain attempt to force the unpopular Concordat with the Vatican. Subsequently Premier Milan Stoyadinovitch permitted Mr. Harrison to remain in the country. Last week with Premier Stoyadinovitch in Rome, Acting Premier Koroshets was able to make good...
...cast his lot with China. He entertained and lived well, rode around in a bright yellow motorcar and bright yellow railroad train, and so great became his influence that the Nationalist Government thought it worthwhile to pay him $480,000 a year, give him the title of "Great Wise Priest Who Guards the Nation and Spreads Culture," in an attempt to save Manchuria and North China from Japanese influence...