Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...America the Rev. John LaFarge, SJ described Nazi treatment of Catholic Slovenia as "a hell deliberately planned by Adolf Hitler, out of his diabolical hatred for Christ and His Church." Local priests are being replaced by Germans, and in one diocese 65% of the priests have already been arrested...
...Clement Danes Church, which lies like an island surrounded by the traffic of the Strand, only the walls and tower still stand. Of St. Clement's eleven bells, six have been destroyed. A month after the blitzing of St. Clement's last spring, its vicar, the Rev. Mr. William Pennington-Bickford, died-of a broken heart, his parishioners said. Last week his widow was buried beside him. She had jumped to her death from an attic window after telling her cook: "I prayed every night that God might take...
...Three World War I heroes-winners of the D.S.O.-were appointed to Church of England bishoprics. One of them, the new Lord Bishop of Newcastle, the Rt. Rev. Noel Baring Hudson, was a temporary brigadier general at 23-the youngest in the war. Later he was ordained, served as missionary bishop in Borneo...
Sponsor of the school was the Most Rev. Robert Emmet Lucey. who became Archbishop of San Antonio four months ago (TIME, April 7). Since then he has been saying little but doing much to put his social ideas into effect. He has worked hand in glove with labor leaders, was responsible for bringing a C.I.O. organizer to the city where "poverty is so vast and wages so low." He has laid the foundation for a Catholic Action program to foster adult social-study clubs and a youth movement "to give them an understanding of religious and social problems...
...conference was led by Rev. Otis Radcliffe Rice, instructor in pastoral psychology at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary, and Dr. Smiley Blanton, Manhattan psychiatrist. No denomination has officially condemned its pastors' use of psychiatry, but many a cleric and layman looks askance at the idea. One result last week was that while the ministers attending the Chicago conference were loud in their praises of it, they did not want to give their names for fear it would get back to their parishes that they were enrolled...