Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should diplomatic relations be re-established with the Vatican. Last fortnight there was further evidence of the new collaboration between the Church and the U. S. in the departure for South America of two able representatives of the U. S. Catholic hierarchy - Bishop James Hugh Ryan of Omaha and Rev. Dr. Maurice Stephen Sheehy of Catholic University. Bound on an 18,000-mile goodwill tour to "develop cultural relationships'' among the Roman Catholic republics of Latin America, these hefty, affable churchmen embarked with the blessings not only of Mother Church but also of the U. S. State Department...
Accident it may have been that the President's callers last week included Roman Catholic Bishop James Ryan of Omaha and Rev. Maurice Sheehy of Catholic University; that he appointed Roman Catholic Frank Murphy, Governor-reject of Michigan, to be his Attorney General (see col. 3); that the Pan-American Conference at Lima, so largely the creature of Franklin Roosevelt and Secretary Hull, was praised last week by L'Osservatore Romano, the Pope's daily, after the totalitarian press had belittled it. The significance of these things, planned or unplanned, was that events appeared to be rapidly...
...Rev. James Lafayette Horace is the Negro parson of Monumental Baptist Church on Chicago's South Side. Lately he has been annoyed by receiving invitations to join the Illinois Automobile Club, written on stationery which explains that the club is for "white persons only." Last week Parson Horace took action. To the I. A. C. he wrote...
...songs." On any Sunday throughout the U. S., among the thousands of hymns which drone toward Heaven are sure to be the following well-beloved four: The Church's One Foundation; O, Jesus, I Have Promised; Onward, Christian Soldiers; Softly Now the Light of Day. Last week Rt. Rev. Benjamin Dunlap Dagwell, chub-cheeked Episcopal Bishop of Oregon, suggested that these old soldiers be given a rest. Said the Bishop, who has sung them since he was a chub-cheeked choirboy: "They are fine hymns and should be used from time to time, but I get tired of singing...
Last week the trustees made up their minds, appointed a fifth churchman, Rev. Dr. Norman Burdett Nash, 50, professor of Christian social ethics at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass. But while Dr. Nash is an ordained minister, his resemblance to his predecessors ends there. Dr. Drury was high church. Dr. Nash is low church and anything but austere...