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What set the Episcopal world abuzz last week was not the fact of Trinity's wealth but an idea advanced by its $18,000-a-year rector, Dr. Frederic S. Fleming. He thought the time had come for the Protestant Episcopal Church, like the Church of England, to have a permanent head, with the title of archbishop. He hopes the General Convention at Atlantic City next October will confer that honor upon the Church's present Presiding Bishop, pontifical James DeWolf Perry. Wrote Rector Fleming...
...comment which soon came popping from other Episcopal clergymen throughout the city presaged a hot light over Rector Fleming's proposal at the General Convention. Said one: "We're all in favor of it." Said another: "I don't see much sense...
...William III in 1697 which gave Trinity its land also gave it the right to sell all whales, wrecks and drift materials washed up on the shores of Long Island. Whether the church ever got a whale is not on record, but wags still call up Trinity's rector to ask if he wants a nice whale carcass...
...take Jesuit scholastics after they complete two years of ascetic theology and two of classics, before they embark upon three years of teaching, four of theology and one of ascetic theology. Rev. Aloysius Henry Rohde, assistant to the Jesuit provincial in Chicago, will be the school's temporary rector until a full one is appointed by that most formidable cleric, the Superior General or "Black Pope," Wlodomir Ledochowski in Rome. The 80 students who will study under eight priests at West Baden College will live in ordinary Jesuit routine...
When they were all through Rector Livingston, grinning quietly in a corner, heard the jury award him damages of 6?. He was satisfied. Miss Julia Smith thought of appealing...