Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...register for the draft), De Bernonville's war record didn't look so bad. Houde and his nationalist friends were cooking up a new political party, Le Parti Canadien. De Bernonville looked like just what they needed to bring French Canadian voters running. He was a Roman Catholic. He could be made to seem a martyr to Ottawa's "implacable hatred" for Frenchmen and Roman Catholics...
...most Protestants (and many Roman Catholics), the Mass is a formal, mysterious ritual which typifies a formal, mysterious church. Last week Monsignor Ronald A. Knox, famed British scholar and detective-story writer, published a cheerful, witty, informal book called The Mass in Slow Motion (Sheed & Ward; $2.50). Designed to explain the mysterious Latin mumble-jumble of the Mass, the book combines reverence with readability...
Monsignor Knox, a longtime Roman Catholic chaplain at Oxford University, has lately been practicing what he calls "a highly specialized art form, that of sermons to schoolgirls." His detailed close-up of Catholicism's chief ceremony is a set of these sermons, starting with the assurance: "The Mass is really a kind of religious dance." Sample Knoxisms...
...theologians would agree that Dr. Perl's end justified her means. Protestants and Jews have varying views on different kinds of abortion; Roman Catholics say flatly that any abortion is mortal sin. One physician, New York's Dr. David Deutschman, observed: "There is no rational or moral justification for . . . wholesale slaughter of infants . . . whether it be done by the brutal Nazis, or by a sentimental and well-meaning female medical personality...
Chariot is content to stay within the few blocks that hold the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, a Roman Catholic Church, and his white frame house on Boulder Crescent. Colorado has, of course, other attractions for Chariot. "Since I came to this outdoor-loving land," says he, "I am engaging in contemplating fishing. That is to say, I am contemplating...