Word: toed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But New York's Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, allowing the Methodists no chance to feel too complacent, told them that two important threats are facing the church: Communism and Roman Catholicism.
"I regret to record these matters," Bishop Oxnam said. "But ... we confront a crisis, now worldwide, in which freedom itself is at stake. The Roman Catholic Church does not believe in religious liberty as we understand it. The Communist Party does not believe in civil liberty as we understand it...
"In this connection, the current issue involving the use of public funds for the support of parochial education ... is part of a carefully calculated plan to break down the American doctrine of the separation of church and state . . ."
Such groups, Archbishop Gushing told the Archdiocesan Union of Holy Name Societies, were a "refined form of the Ku Klux Klan." Cautioning Catholics against being "dazzled" by slogans about separation of church and state, and similar "glittering generalities," he said: "Our people are in a very precarious position thanks to...
When he was a child, Francis Forgione was noted among the villagers of Pietrelcina, Italy for his piety. No one was surprised when he became a Capuchin monk and in due time was ordained a priest under the name Padre Pio-Father Pius. He developed tuberculosis, but continued his priestly...