Word: roman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that it matters very much, but Secretary of War Hurley is not a Roman Catholic. If he were, what a blow to Col. Bill Donovan, Mr. Hoover's ex-friend, who had to be shelved because he confessed that faith. It may be that the Catholics claim Pat Hurley, but I know better. As I say, not that it matters except as such things are made to matter by the press, to which your magazine stands as a shining corrective...
Secretary of War Hurley's parents were Roman Catholics. His friends in Tulsa believe he is a Roman Catholic. He declines to deny or confirm a nationwide news report which stated that he is a Roman Catholic...
...morning, most Roman citizens are still abed. Few were the early risers who saw, one morning last week, four automobiles speeding by a devious route-past the Temple of Vesta, the Palatine, the Circus Maximus and the Coliseum-to the Basilica of St. John Lateran, which is the cathedral of the Diocese, its high altar reserved to the Bishop of Rome, who is the Pope. A small party of ecclesiastics got out of the motors, entered the church...
...Roman travelers in the century after Christ would return to Rome with stories of naked hermits met in far, desert places, whose repeated word was the strange word which eventually worried Rome into believing it: "God is love...
...This name was pre-empted (1915) by a small sect (1,000) centering in Chicago, an offshoot of the Old Roman Catholic Church of Holland...