Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazi Germany's war on the Roman Catholic Church, Catholicism's most experienced critic of Nazi ideology is Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich. In practical dealings with Nazis no German prelate is more adroit than the noble Bishop of Münster, the Most Rev. Clemens August Count von Galen. Example: When Bishop Galen lately preached in his cathedral on the Church's role in the education of youth, a uniformed Nazi leaped up to shout: "How can anybody talk about youth if he himself has neither wife nor child...
...Statistically, 90% Roman Catholic, with some 7,000,000 souls listed as belonging to the Church. Actually, anticlericalism has made its inroads in Austria. Last week Rev. James Mar tin Gillis, C.S.P., editor of the Catholic World, estimated the population as "50% or 40% good Catholic...
...supported by arbitrary tithes, now gradually being liquidated. "God's acres" stem from such tithing. For eight years a systematized form of tithing, the Lord's Acre Plan, has flourished under the guidance of the Farmers' Federation of North Carolina. Its director is a Northern Presbyterian, Rev. Dumont Clarke, onetime Y. M. C. A. man in India, onetime religious director at Lawrenceville School...
...Lord's Acre Plan, has furnished information concerning it to churchmen in 40 States. Some 325 North Carolina churches, of eleven denominations, employ it. The largest, a Baptist church in Hendersonville, received $2,352 last year from 40-odd acres planted to corn, sweet potatoes, cabbages, etc. Rev. B. M. Strickland (Baptist) reported that since his people have taken up the Lord's Acre Plan he has performed more baptisms. Said he: "The work of the Lord's Acre makes good churches better churches, and good people better people. It also makes good churches out of dull...
...defense sprang an articulate sector of the medical and social service professions. When the police chief of New Haven, Conn, confiscated copies and arrested a dealer, the testimony of two Yale medical professors and a Congregational minister persuaded a judge to dismiss the case. Said the minister, the Rev. Dr. Oscar Maurer: "The failure of parents to acquaint their offspring with the facts of life justifies public agencies doing...