Word: romanized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only with permission of the Ministry of the Interior. These decrees incensed the Holy See. In practice the number of marriages involved is small; but in theory the laws violate the 1929 concordat between Church and State. By that concordat. Italy recognizes the validity of all marriages contracted in Roman Catholic churches...
Sitting in the ruins of the Capitol at twilight, a 27-year-old Englishman named Edward Gibbon once dreamed of writing a massive work on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. At that time the British Empire was growing strong. And to young Edward Gibbon the fall of Rome seemed a simple, faraway matter: wealth unmanned the noble Romans; Christianity enfeebled the masses; the barbarians advanced...
...Brooklyn Tablet, official organ of the Roman Catholic diocese of Brooklyn, N. Y.. .is a monolithic weekly which is edited, as if with mallet & chisel, by Dr. Patrick Scanlan. Last week, for the third successive time, the Tablet gave its wide-eyed readers news about a plot which, if authenticated, would have made every front page in the land. Villain of the plot was Professor Thurman Wesley Arnold, Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. The plot itself: "starting a national religion and striving to control all others...
...three Roman Catholic Cardinals of the U. S., the most ardent friend of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal has long been Chicago's Archbishop George William Cardinal Mundelein. Last month, after pontificating as Papal Legate at the New Orleans Eucharistic Congress (TIME, Oct. 31), Cardinal Mundelein journeyed to Washington, spent an afternoon cruising with the President aboard the yacht Potomac...
Since Viennese Nazis sacked the archiepiscopal palace of Theodor Cardinal Innitzer last month, the Nazi Government of the Ostmark has systematically closed down Roman Catholic schools and seminaries, bundled monks out of their monasteries, arrested and harried the lower clergy. After the sack, Cardinal Innitzer (whom the U. S. Catholic hierarchy at its recent annual meeting praised as a "valiant spokesman") issued a statement denying that he had ever attacked Adolf Hitler, or that he had been silent at the accession of Sudetenland, and declaring: "I expressed my thanks to the Führer and ordered thanksgiving services...