Word: romanizers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World-Helen C. White - Macmillan ($2.50). The vicissitudes of an idealistic young Catholic priest in the French Revolution. Studious and devout, it will most interest Roman Catholic readers...
Central act of the Roman Catholic faith is the sacrifice of the Mass, which commemorates and re-enacts the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross. Central mystery of the Mass is the consecration, by the celebrant, of the Host (wheaten wafer) and wine, which become, according to Catholic belief, transubstantiated into the Body and Blood of the Lord, and are consumed by the celebrant. Later, smaller wafers ("particles"), which are consecrated (and thus transubstantiated) at the same time, are distributed in Holy Communion. There must be some left over, to be placed in the tabernacle on the altar. These...
Declaring that Jefferson was not as much influenced in his philosophy by French thinkers as is commonly thought. Chinard traced the course of his life to prove that although in contact with French literature and people, he derived his policies not from France, but from the Greek and Roman classics...
...years Bishop Rowe visited the U. S. only ten times, to lecture and raise money. Four times he refused bishoprics in the States. Never a great missionary church, the Episcopal Church kept Alaska on meagre rations. The Presbyterians and Roman Catholics kept larger staffs in the territory. But although Alaska's baptized Episcopalians number only 6,360, Bishop Rowe could say that his church has "a prestige among the people of Alaska which is not enjoyed by the other communions." He plans to return to Alaska in January, to be among the Indians whose faith he admires. They will...
...veteran of World War I (named after St. Anastasia, who had her tongue cut out for resisting the advances of Roman Emperor Valerian), Anastasie was revived by a French satirical weekly, Le Canard Enchaine, when World War II began. She presides over the crowded corridors of the Hotel Continental in the Rue de Castiglione, home of Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux's Ministry of Information...