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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordination and the apostolic succession of the ministry (from the original Apostles). Presbyterians simply believe that their ministers are the same as bishops, since they are ordained by presbyteries acting in an episcopal capacity. Not all Episcopalians, however, believe that the Presbyterians' apostolic succession is valid-just as Roman Catholics deny the Episcopal validity. At present, a Presbyterian minister wishing to enter the Episcopal priesthood must be reordained. And last week many a Presbyterian suspected that the proposed "commissioning" service, which would involve the laying on of hands, might constitute a surreptitious form of reordination...
...Patrick Scanlan, managing editor of the Brooklyn Tablet, the collapse of the Spanish Loyalists last week (see p. 14) looked like a clean-cut Christian victory. Yet it was also a Fascist victory. Even as Roman Catholic editors wrote of it, General Franco, to them a "Christian Gentleman," set in motion a device which might well seriously embarrass his Christian followers. He signed a "cultural treaty" with Adolf Hitler, by which Spain and the Third Reich undertook to give "fiscal preference" to one another's cultural works. Banned in each state were to be all publications unfavorable to either...
Thus last week the Roman Church's policy of picking & choosing among governments brought it face to face with a dilemma. Pundit Dorothy Thompson, who mortally hates Fascism, discussing the implications of the "cultural treaty," blackly warned Catholics: "If, in the eyes of millions of people, Fascism and Catholicism should become identified, it might be very unfortunate for Catholicism in all democratic countries...
...Adams, Mass. (pop. 12,697). Then famed old Education Commissioner Payson Smith, who had served with distinction for 18 years, was ousted after he had refused to give jobs to friends of newly-elected Governor James Michael Curley. Governor Curley asked Louis Joseph Gallagher, president of Boston College (Roman Catholic) to suggest a bright young Catholic for Commissioner. Dr. Gallagher chose Mr. Reardon, who had twice flunked State examinations for a superintendent's license...
...consecration of Atlanta, Ga.'s new, $350,000 Roman Catholic Co-Cathedral of Christ the King, erected on the site of the Ku Klux Klan's Imperial Palace, Most Rev. Gerald Patrick Aloysius O'Hara, Bishop of the Savannah-Atlanta diocese, invited the Klan's Imperial Wizard Hiram Wesley Evans...