Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Power was bitter over what Roman aristocracy and Roman commoners had done to his wedding. But 20th Century-Fox publicity men loved it: they distributed leaflets dubbing the event The Wedding of the Century...
...Power had been baptized and brought up as a member of the Roman Catholic Church, which regards his 1939 civil marriage to French Actress Annabella as invalid...
Last week a militant group of U.S. clergymen and laymen met in Washington and set out to raise $1,000,000 "to resist the declared purposes of the Roman Catholic Church further to breach the wall of separation between church and state...
...much as for conquest,* left his personal stamp on the manuscript art. He used to complain that the prevailing script was too knotty to read; to rectify it the Emperor invited the Northumbrian monk Alcuin to teach the Franks a comparatively simple hand inherited from the days of Roman rule. The script did not stay simple: by the 13th Century, manuscript texts had become as tangled as briar patches. The gnarled letters of ladies' prayer books were twined about with ornamental thorns, and even the page borders swarmed with children and gargoyles...
...state support for church schools. Said Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam: "One of the most important bastions of the fortress of religious liberty is the American principle of the separation of church and state. A full-scale attack upon this principle . . . has been launched by the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church . . . The Roman Catholic Church does not believe in the separation of church and state . . . The question of public support for parochial education does raise the issue . . . Protestants and Other Americans United . . . has not been organized for the purpose of attacking the Roman Catholic Church or any other...