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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born and raised a Roman Catholic, my ignorance may seem refreshing, when (if I may) I ask you to please explain who this Black Pope...
...State. New York and New Orleans might appropriately have joined the celebration. Self-named in honor of his birthplace, Lafcadio Hearn was the son of a Greek woman and an Irish surgeon-major stationed on the island during the British occupation that followed Waterloo. After indefinite schooling at a Roman Catholic College in Great Britain he went to the U. S., worked as a waiter in New York, then moved to Cincinnati where State laws prevented his marrying his octoroon mistress. Next move was to New Orleans where he worked on the Times Democrat, wrote the sketches of Creole life...
...slavery, Luther threw off the shackles of that damnable spiritual tyranny that pressed human souls of all colors and races into the strait jacket of abject terror that cringes before the distressing spectres of an outraged conscience and shudders before the thought of God and eternity. . . . All Protestantism, yea, Roman Catholicism itself, as its eminent scholars have admitted, not only owes him an everlasting debt of gratitude but also needs the restatement of many of his principles. ... If, as the world pauses to celebrate his birth four and a half centuries ago, it would rear a shaft of reverent devotion...
...Pilgrim" departed she said: " 'I know just what is in your Roman mind. You wonder how we shall ever get along. Well, I sometimes wonder myself. But our proposition does show that Protestant women have learned the beauty of Catholic sisters' life, and that nuns are actuated by a positive, constructive ideal, not by mere longings to flee the world...
Amarillo, Tex. is the cow & oil town which gained national notice when Gene Howe, crusty editor of its Globe-News, accused Colonel Lindbergh of snubbing it and called Mary Garden "tottering" (TIME, June n, 1928, April 1, 1929). Last week Amarillo was of interest to the U. S. Roman Catholic hierarchy. To it went scores of priests, monsignori and bishops, among them Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, new Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., and Most Rev. Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, exiled Apostolic Delegate to Mexico. In Amarillo they made processions, held solemn ceremonies in the Cathedral, all in honor...