Word: roman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roman Catholicism. Meeting at Columbus, Ohio, the National Lutheran Editors' Association, a body representing, two million readers of Lutheran literature, brought out of the whispering gallery and into the amplifiers the oldtime subject of Nominee Smith's Roman Catholicism. While not presuming to campaign openly for Hoover, the Lutheran editors voted to tell their readers that the Roman Catholic Church requires of its members allegiance to a "foreign sovereign . . . who has worldwide political interests of his own which may severely clash with the best interests of our country...
...named after the Most Blessed Conception of the Virgin Mary continued the focus of Mexican news last week. She had been besmirched (TIME, Sept. 3). A youth and a girl had confessed that she was the "master mind" of a group of Roman Catholics who finally persuaded a fanatic to assassinate President-elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30). In the face of such testimony Mother Superior Concepcion remained calm and demanded to be faced by her accusers last week...
...sweeping criminal investigation now being conducted by Mexico City's new Chief of Police, General Antonio Rios Zertuche. The General, an intimate and brother-in-arms of General Obregon is determined, perhaps too determined, to find out that the assassin, one José de Leon Toral, an insignificant Roman Catholic fanatic, was not the sole author of the crime as he still insists that...
Such, in excerpt, are the authentic words wherewith a Christian may be thoroughly damned by the Roman Catholic Church. But not every Catholic who is excommunicated is damned so wholeheartedly. There are degrees. For example, M. Maurice Pujo, famed Managing Editor of the French Royalist newspaper L'Action Française (TIME, July 4, 1927 and Dec. 19), was permitted to be married at Paris last week, in the vestry of a Roman Catholic Church, although not long ago he was excommunicated (TIME, April...
...rebellion of the Roman Catholic clergy against the laws established in the matter of religion continues, and because of this the executive has dictated measures necessary to enforce compliance with these laws. As the clergymen of the creeds other than the Roman Catholics have submitted to these laws during the year of 1927, permission for the establishment of six Protestant churches has been granted, and in 1928 nine similar permits have been issued. Likewise, in accordance with the laws, permits have been granted to the clergymen of American and other nationalities, allowing them to conduct their religious teachings...