Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every Jesuit college in the world periodically gets a new president, personally chosen in Rome by the "Black Pope''-the Jesuit General. Last week, for the 16th time, Loyola University in Chicago changed presidents. Rev. Robert Michael Kelley, S.J. was succeeded by Rev. Samuel Knox Wilson, S.J. who has been eleven years on Loyola's staff...
More to the taste of local Welsh coal miners who had gathered for the festival by hundreds, was Poet the Rev. Simon Bartholomew Jones, son of a Cardigan farmer. "I have six brothers." cried Poet Jones, "and every one is like myself a poet...
Last week the Wartime activities of preachers were recalled by Rev. William Benjamin ("Bill") Spofford, Socialist, Episcopal minister and managing editor of The Witness, Episcopal weekly. He feared that much the same thing was about to happen under NRA, and that some day churchmen might regret it just as much. Wrote Editor Spofford: "I presume most of us now realize that we made a mistake in those far-off days and that we did wrong in allowing the State to gobble up the church to use for its own purposes. We can see the issue clearly enough today when Hitler...
...shrine waylay picnicking New Yorkers and make it convenient for them to attend to their spiritual duties. For blocks around vehicles, including a fire engine, nosed in for blessing. But traffic jams developed so the priests blessed every half-hour. After the last mass suppliants fol lowed the pastor, Rev. John Joseph Mahon, and another priest outdoors for the blessing of a special new shrine for motorists. The shrine is a chromium-plated Cadillac radiator frame set in a rock garden. A chromium-plated cross surmounts the radiator-cap and a St. Christo pher medal supplants the Cadillac insignia...
...male & female Germans above 24 years of age who held Protestant baptismal certificates. Thousands of German Protestants who had ceased to be regular churchgoers trudged fearfully to the polls. Early election returns seemed to indicate a Nazi victory by two-thirds or more of the poll. Jubilant, Rev. Ludwig Müller, styled last week "Chancellor Hitler's Plenipotentiary in Protestant Affairs," hailed as a certainty that the church elders elected last week will vote to create the Evangelical Church of the German Nation. "This is a miracle," cried Plenipotentiary Muller, "wrought...