Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virginians have souls to be saved as well as Englishmen," argued the Rev. James Blair at the Court of King William and Queen Mary in 1602. One of only twelve clergymen among 15,000 Virginians, he was fighting for a badly-needed divinity school for the South...
Like a monarch with a cabinet, the "Black Pope" of the Society of Jesus has a curia of seven assistants. All must live in Rome. Last week "Black Pope" Wlodimir Ledochowski, able, rugged Pole, summoned Very Rev. Zacheus J. Maher of San José, Calif, to be his assistant for North America. San Francisco-born Jesuit Maher has been president of Santa Clara University...
Died. Rt. Rev. Thomas Frank Gailor, 79, well-beloved Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee, onetime (1919-25) Presiding Bishop; chancellor of the University of the South (Sewanee); after long illness; in Sewanee. A courageous, quick-witted broad-churchman, he was one of Tennessee's two outstanding citizens (the other: Cordell Hull). Rt. Rev. James Matthew Maxon, 60, hardworking, cigar-smoking Bishop Coadjutor, automatically succeeds...
Last week Bradford Young arrived in Brooklyn, resumed his old post at Holy Trinity Church. His superior, Rev. Dr. John Howard Melish, welcomed him genially: "I think of him as my son. Speaking for myself, I am delighted that the San Francisco church doesn't want him." In San Francisco the real loser in the battle, Bishop Parsons, mounted the pulpit of rectorless Trinity Church, spoke mystically. Said he: "He brought a fine Christian spirit to a very difficult situation in San Francisco. At my invitation he came, he saw and-in a deep sense-he conquered...
Canon law of the Roman Catholic Church forbids a priest to engage in business. But last week Bishop Joseph H. Conroy of Ogdensburg, N. Y. felt justified in stretching the letter of the law to permit one of his priests to become a bank president. Belgian-born, Rev. Cyril Stevens, 65, has for 21 years been pastor of small Ticonderoga's only Catholic church, St. Mary's. When Ticonderoga's National Bank looked shaky during the Bank Holiday of 1933, Father Stevens it was-his church being a stockholder and large depositor-who singlehanded saved the bank...