Word: vicar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eugenic Pacelli, Pius XII, Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the State of the City of the Vatican, rises punctually at 6:30 every morning. He throws open the window of his bedroom (on the third floor of the Vatican Palace) looking out on St. Peter's Square, and with hands crossed, prays. His is a busy day, so this first prayer is brief. He turns back...
...vicar was shocked. For three months, on a hop-skip-&-jump tour of the U.S., he had talked to young people about their morals. Last week, back home at London's Holy Trinity Church, the Rev. Bryan Green shocked his congregation. "The morals of American students are deplorable," he said. "In the state universities at least 90% of the men students and 69% of the women have sex relations outside marriage. Intimacy between high-school students is very common...
Where did the vicar get his information? From a U.S. sociologist, he said, but for the life of him he couldn't remember the name...
Another British vicar, the Rev. W. G. Hargrave Thomas of Needham Market, contributed a little shocker of his own: no "social stigma" should be pinned on spinster schoolmarms, he thought, if they felt like having a baby...
...Among the backers of Bricett (who failed to finish): the Reverend J. S. Clarke, vicar of St. Barnabas Church, Plymouth, who advised his congregation to put a bob (no more) on the race. He added: "Though betting is a mug's game, to say that he who puts a shilling on the National is morally wrong is probably not true." Suggested the U.S. magazine The Blood-Horse: why doesn't Parson Clarke call his next sermon "Blessed Are the Pacemakers...