Word: romane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...marked contrast to Episcopalian difficulties in Philadelphia was last week's Roman Catholic news there. Needing an auxiliary bishop for the diocese, Pope Pius simply appointed 34-year old Monsignor Gerald P. O'Hara of Philadelphia, now secretary to Philadelphia's Denis J Cardinal Dougherty...
Quickly the exiled Senior Prelate of the Roman Catholic Mexican Episcopate, Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores. observed to reporters in Washington...
...stopgap chancellor, however, he should do very well since he is a Roman Catholic and enjoys the support of the largest faction in the republic, the reactionary, Catholic "Christian Socialists" who abhor the late Karl Marx (see p. 53) as though he were Beelzebub...
Notable was the following declaration anent Mexico's Roman Catholics made last week by President Fortes Gil: "In the States of Jalisco, Michoacan and Guanajuato there are under arms servants of the Catholic Church, who, forgetting their Christian morality, dedicate themselves to acts of absolute banditry on the pretext of defending the doctrines of their Church. In contrast with that attitude there are other dignified representatives of Catholicism who counsel respect for law and authority...
Patriotic Britishers were fearful, last week, lest the famed Portland vase be sold across the sea to some wealthy U. S. art collector. A ten-inch cinerary urn found during the 16th century in an old Roman tomb, long owned by Dukes of Portland, the vase had been announced for auction by the present Sixth Duke, "owing to the exigencies of the present times." For 119 years the Portlands had loaned it to the British Museum. But last week, as it stood on display in Christie's London auction rooms, many a Britisher went for a last look. Everyone supposed...