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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This figure, calculated Correspondent Sheean, includes some 12,000 Roman Catholics, an additional 5,000 to 6,000 members of Ernst Rudiger Prinz von Starhemberg's Heimwehr, several hundred aristocrats, thousands of workers, trade-union leaders, Social Democrats and Communists, 20,000 Jews and 450 Austrian Nazis "purged" fortnight...
...Catholic authorities deny that such a ceremony, if any in fact was performed, could be valid because no action has been taken by the Sacred Roman Rota to dissolve the Countess' previous marriage...
Last week an influential Roman Catholic weekly, The Commonweal, made news by urging U. S. Catholics to be impartial on the Spanish civil war. Under Editor Michael Williams, The Commonweal rooted for a Franco victory. But three months ago Michael Williams stepped out as editor-in-chief and a cooler triumvirate -Philip Burnham, Edward Skillin Jr. and Harry Lorin Binsse-took charge...
...last and most legendary of the White Russian counter-revolutionists rounded up by the Soviet Government was Baron Roman Fedorovich Ungern-Sternberg, diminutive, monstrously capricious, brilliant commander of the East Asiatic Cossack Division, who in his last stand in Outer Mongolia beat the best the Red Army sent against him, went down to defeat only when his own officers rebelled against his sadistic despotism...
...members of its flock, the Roman Catholic Church does not recognize the validity of marriages performed by civil officials or non-Catholic clergymen. The Church, moreover, disapproves of "mixed marriages" between Catholics and non-Catholics, requires certain promises from the non-Catholic before granting a dispensation for the union. In Quebec, 85% Catholic, a combination of these facts has operated in recent years to the disadvantage of non-Catholics and their clergy. Many a mixed marriage, upon being declared null & void by church courts, has in turn been annulled by civil courts. To justify such annulments, many Catholics hold that...