Word: vicar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miss anything, Dr. Cummins went to Philadelphia too last week. Among themselves the Anglo-Catholics chuckled: "The Archbishop of Poughkeepsie is here, with his Vicar General." Low-churchmen told one another that the Anglo-Catholics had four detectives on Dr. Cummins' trail. When Dr. Cummins returned to his pulpit, he scornfully ex ploded: "The question that confronts us is why do not these men, if honest, respond to the urge of their convictions and make their submission to Rome now. The Protestant Episcopal Church would be stronger without them...
...Ignatius Loyola and associates and adopted in 1558. The General lives in Rome, is advised by assistants from various parts of the World (at present only five). Should the General through age or infirmity become incapable of governing the Jesuits, the general congregation may meet and appoint a vicar to act for him. At his death the General may appoint his own vicar, to serve until the congregation elects a full successor...
...audience understood more than the gist of Sir Henry's discourse. He stood behind a lectern in the amphitheatre's pit, tall, domed and ruddy, looking like a vicar in a pulpit, and in a rich baritone spoke at length about the drugs which the body creates within itself. The hormones are among such drugs. Histamine and acetycholine are two subtle auto-pharmacals with which he dealt particularly. Histamine seems to be a generalized component of body tissues. Lung cells are richest with it, epidermal cells next richest. At every injury or irritation the insulted cells exude their...
...local unit resembling the medieval guild. Without anywhere attempting to promote these ideas by direct political action, and without reducing them to concrete proposals, Pius XI has offered them to the world as supreme economic wisdom, divinely inspired and backed by the sublime authority of God's earthly vicar...
...parishes, was rector of Chicago's Church of the Atonement from 1915 to 1927. This post he liked so well that, in 1924, he refused the bishop coadjutorship of Northern Indiana and the bishopric of Olympia, Wash. After holding the rectorship of St. Stephen's in Providence, he became vicar of the Chapel of the Intercession (one of Trinity's seven offspring) in Manhattan in 1930. Twelfth in a line of rectors dating from 1697, he will get something like $20,000 a year,* considerably more than his superior Bishop Manning (a onetime rector of Trinity) who last year took...