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During his Presidential term (1841-45) sturdy, self-willed John Tyler lost his first wife and, at 54, married 22-year-old Julia Gardiner, a Roman Catholic. To this union, when John Tyler was 63, was born Lyon Gardiner Tyler. Another son was born four years later...
LIVES OF THE ROMAN EMPRESSES- Jacques de Serviez-Wm. H. Wise & Co. ($2.90). Reprint of an 18th Century translation, introduction by Robert Graves...
...Heretofore, only form of birth control which the Roman Catholic Church permitted was continence. Lately Professors Kyusaku Ogino (Japan) and Herman Knaus (Austria) propounded a theory that a woman can be impregnated only during eight days of her cycle, that during the remaining 19 to 24 days she is not apt to conceive. This system of intermittent continence fits perfectly with the word of God, say Catholic authorities. Sixty thousand copies of a single exposition of the Ogino-Knaus rhythm theory and rules have been sold. The originators say that their system is more than 90% positive if their rules...
From Rome every year a number of black-cassocked seminarians go home on vacation, take unto themselves wives, bed them legally. Presently, with the sanction of the Roman Catholic Church, these youths are ordained subdeacons. Later, men of family though they may be, they become priests. Unique in the Catholic clergy, such married priests are members of certain Uniat sects once estranged from Rome, now reunited, differing slightly in practice but accepting the full authority of the Pope...
...Breakdown of the Roman Empire," Professor Salvemini. Emerson...