Word: revs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only the first religious picture magazine but also the biggest job of rotogravure ever clone in the U. S.- 2,843,000 copies of the first issue. That its price was shaved to 1? is chiefly due to the work of a boyish young priest named Rev. James G. Keller...
...member of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America at Maryknoll, N. Y., Father Keller was borrowed this year by his Church's biggest missionary organization, the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith. He discussed with his superior, Rt. Rev. Monsignor William Quinn, his ideas for making a quarterly pictorial of Catholic Missions, which S. P. F. had been publishing for ten years. Father Keller had in mind increasing its circulation from 80,000 to 500,000. Distribution would cost little because each issue could be sent out by freight, disposed of in the churches...
...Since the Episcopal Church drew up its constitution in 1789, its Canon 42 had been brought into civil court only once before-in New Jersey in 1893. Tortuous and hedged with ambiguities was the question Judge Finley was to decide: had Bishop Simeon Arthur Huston the right to oust Rev. Charles Stanley Mook from Trinity Church without taking counsel with the Standing Committee of his diocese...
...Auxiliary and the Daughters of the King-all because the women opposed him. But of most concern to the court and the Episcopal Church were the opinions of five of Bishop Huston's clergy. Unanimously they agreed that he had exceeded his canonical authority. Said Very Rev. John D. McLauchlan, dean of the Seattle Cathedral: "A bishop can't do anything without the consent of his Standing Committee. Personally I feel that bishops should have much more power than they do-but they don't." Dean McLauchlan and his colleagues agreed that a bishop's right...
Five times last week did the bishops in the chapter house send slates to the college in the Cathedral. Five times did the names on the slate fail of a majority vote. Then on the sixth slate presented the electors agreed upon Rt. Rev. Derwyn Trevor Owen, 58, bishop of Niagara and Toronto. Born in England like most of Canada's 1,600 Anglican clergymen, he was educated in Toronto and Lennoxville, Que., held rectorships in Toronto and Hamilton, became bishop...