Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lovely young thing with a charming little nose . . . She was sold at auction like a slave of Roman days, and so fascinating she was that the final bid for her possession reached the tidy sum of $245,000. Who purchased Sabine at the time, who owns her now, I am not sure-Mr. Harkness was under Sabine's spell, if I am not mistaken...
Back to the Old Trade. As a novice in his order, Fray José Francisco de Guadalupe had been startled to learn the extent of the chronic shortage of clergy in Roman Catholic South America; he found that on the continent there were areas half as large as Spain without a priest, some 40,000 parishes without pastors. His decision was to go back as a priest to the crowds and microphones he had given up. Since then he has carried his recruiting and fund-raising campaign into Venezuela, Chile, Colombia and Argentina...
...York's Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, allowing the Methodists no chance to feel too complacent, told them that two important threats are facing the church: Communism and Roman Catholicism...
...regret to record these matters," Bishop Oxnam said. "But ... we confront a crisis, now worldwide, in which freedom itself is at stake. The Roman Catholic Church does not believe in religious liberty as we understand it. The Communist Party does not believe in civil liberty as we understand it. When either the Roman Catholic Church or the Communist Party, acting upon its belief in these matters, seeks to deny to us either religious or civil liberty, our own freedom is involved, and it is not a part of tolerance to submit to such denials until at last our freedom passes...
...Boston, Roman Catholic Archbishop Richard J. Gushing also saw a menace-in Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State, an organization which Bishop Oxnam helped found two years ago (TIME...