Word: romane
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Webster's New International permits "papist" as the shortest synonym for Roman Catholic. Nevertheless, the word has so often been used in bitterness that TIME will no longer use it, except when quoting persons who say "papist...
Jumpiness and severity toward Roman Catholics was again last week the mood of President Emilio Fortes Gil of Mexico, who mortally hates and fears Pope Pius XI, because he thinks that the locomotive and two cars of his Presidential train were dynamited by Roman Catholics (TIME...
With a lowering scowl and a menacing jut of his heavy jaw, the Seņor President indicated to correspondents his intense displeasure at a statement issued, last week, from a secret hiding place, by the Bishop of San Luis Potosi, now spokesman for the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in Mexico. Opening with a reference to the writer's "serenity" and "calmness," this epistle denied that the Episcopate or clergy had had any part in the recent "excesses" (dynamitings), and went on to announce that priests who obey the Government's decree requiring them to register their names and addresses (TIME...
Thus the official spokesman of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in Mexico is now a rebel by official proclamation. From last week forward may be said to date Mexico's new "Holy...
Many times has Congress dallied with the idea of taking the Bureau of Education out of the Interior and granting it departmental independence. Roman Catholics, however, have feared Federal interference with parochial schools and it has been their influence largely that has kept Education in a bureau under legislative lock...