Word: romanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wake of Cardinal Mindszenty's sentence, the Communists last week stepped up their drive against religion everywhere behind the Iron Curtain. Protestant as well as Roman Catholic churches suffered persecution...
Some 400,000 voters had elected a new Northern Ireland House of Commons. The issue on which every candidate stood was whether to keep the boundary by which Britain had divided her predominantly (65%) Protestant northern counties from predominantly Roman Catholic (92%) Eire. It was a foregone conclusion that those in favor of keeping the border would win. The surprise was that the Unionists (Protestants) increased their popular vote to 63% and rolled up a better than 3-to-1 majority in the House of Commons over the Republicans (Catholics...
...Father Patrick J. Holloran, then president of St. Louis University, opened his school to Negroes; in 1947 Hoosier-bred Archbishop Joseph E. Ritter opened all parochial schools in his archdiocese to Negro children, silenced objections by threatening excommunication to malcontents (TIME, Sept. 29, 1947). Two St. Louis Roman Catholic colleges for women have Negro students...
VATICAN CITY, Feb. 13-Vatican circles said today anathema-the most dreaded and awesome form of excommunication in the Roman Catholic Church-conceivably may be invoked against the foes of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty at tomorrow's extraordinary papal consistory...
Under modern church law anathema is a grim ritual in which the person who has incurred the wrath of the Roman Catholic Church is excommunicated and condemned to "eternal fire with Satan" to save his soul on judgment...