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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Lecture Hall on "The Church Crisis in France." The laws against the Church, he said, began in 1789, when the tithes due to the church were suppressed and its estates confiscated. Then the civil constitution for clergy, providing for the payment of church officers out of state funds was passed, but rejected by the Church. With the Revolution came the secularization of church properties, lasting until Napoleon's Concordat, which provided that mandates of the Pope should have no effect without the consent of the King. Although by this act the bishops could name the parish clergy with the consent...
...those forbidding members of church organizations to teach in the schools. Then a law was passed allowing associations to be formed, although it also required those already formed to become authorized by the government. In many cases this was not done, and the resulting confiscation of property by the state aroused a great outery...
...France," at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. Professor Macvane has been in France during the past two summers and has been able to see both sides of this very complex and serious crisis of church affairs. The causes leading up to the separation of church and state will be outlined, as well as the results which have followed it. The lecture will be open to the public...
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE. Meeting at 50 State street, Boston...
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE. Meeting at 50 State street, Boston...