Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When parochial teachers of Rochester, N. Y. gathered for an annual conference, 800 priests and nuns heard a speech by Rev. Francis Peter LeBuffe, S. J., business manager of the able Jesuit weekly America. An expert at making points of dogma crystal clear, Father LeBuffe had a blackboard handy, covered it with white, red, green, yellow chalk marks demonstrating the meaning of the Trinity, Original Sin, Transubstantiation, Incarnation. And then Father LeBuffe went...
...years ago Rev. Arthur J. Watson, of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Pawtucket, R.I., wrote and published two love songs-Longings and A Persian Love Song. This summer, on his vacation at Narragansett, R. I., Mr. Watson made a point of meeting Nudancer Sally Rand, who suggested he send her copies of his songs. When he got back to Pawtucket, Mr. Watson promptly dispatched them to her, said she could use them without charge in her act. Commented Mr. Watson: "I found she is a most maligned young woman: I don't know whether she is a college...
Last week in Our Lady of Lebanon Church in Brooklyn, N. Y. Catholic worshippers heard Mass sung in Old Syriac or Aramaic, the language Christ supposedly spoke, by a bearded prelate who looked more Jewish than Catholic. He was Most Rev. Cyril George Dallal. 60, Archbishop of Mosul, head of the Syrian Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, shepherd of 90,000 Christians who live among the 1,000,000 Mohammedans of Iraq. He had just arrived in the U. S., to tour cities in which live Syrian Catholics. How many such there are, no U. S. prelate seemed...
...coming Catholic University of America (Washington, D. C.), only U. S. pontifical university,* announced that its School of Social Work will be enlarged, called the School of Social Science. Significantly, its first dean will be a famed Catholic New Dealer: Rt. Rev. Monsignor Francis Joseph Haas. Monsignor Haas has since 1933 served on the NRA's Labor Advisory Board, the National Labor Board, the National Committee on Business & Labor Standards, WPA's Labor Policies Board. He has been surpassed only by Edward McGrady as a mediator in strikes, serving notably in the Minneapolis truckmen's strike...
...vigorous unofficial body of U. S. Episcopalians, comparable to the radical Methodist Federation for Social Service, is the Church League for Industrial Democracy. For more than a decade its executive secretary has been an amiable, youngish man named Rev. William Benjamin (''Bill") Spofford, managing editor of The Witness, who rarely wears clericals and once, between parishes, drove a payroll truck in Chicago to support his wife and child. The C. L. I. D., whose president is Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons of California and whose vice president is Bishop Benjamin Brewster of Maine. hates War, Fascism, deplores Capitalism...