Word: vicars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easy matter to decide. The world's oldest profession could claim a long and proud history in Italy. Romulus and Remus, the brothers who founded Rome, it was said, were themselves the bastards of a vestal virgin who yielded to Mars for a consideration. In 1490 a city vicar reported to the Vatican that Rome's prostitutes numbered more than "6,800, not even counting those who live in concubinage and those who, not publicly but in secret, maintain five or six women in their houses." Sixtus V (1585-90) wanted to abolish prostitution, but he was dissuaded...
...father and mother when he was a high-school boy, took his training for the ministry at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn. A forceful preacher, an energetic administrator and a precise theologian, he was called from a pastorate in Nashville, Tenn. in 1903 to be vicar of St. Agnes' Chapel in Manhattan's Trinity parish. Five years later, Dr. Manning became rector of Trinity Church and thus head of the wealthiest Episcopal parish in the U.S. At his desk and in the pulpit, he proved to be a good choice for the job: during...
...parish church in the Yorkshire town of Bolton upon Dearne is built on foundations which date back some 900 years. The Rev. Donald Carr Sparks has been vicar there for only ten years. But to Vicar Sparks the church's drab interior and plain, pitch-pine pews seemed "very institutional." Last week, the parishioners of Bolton upon Dearne were doggedly trying out a brave new ecclesiastical color scheme-red (pews), white (walls) and blue (doors). "The whole idea," Vicar Sparks explained, "is to bring color and warmth to the church without making it gaudy...
...last Tuesday night's lecture by Fakhri Maluf, the proceedings at St. Benedict Center did not go unobserved. Monsignor Augustine Rickey, Vicar General of the archdiocese and parish priest, was seen watching from the steps of his church across the street...
Father Feeney accused Monsignor Augustus Hickey, of St. Paul's Church and Vicar General of the archdiocese, of ordering him in the name of the Archbishop to suspend publication of "From the Housetops." Maluf, according to Father Feeney, asked for a written order from the Archbishop to that effect along with the reason for its issuance. Monsignor Hickey reportedly left the Center never to return with the written order. The Chancery neither confirms or denies this story on the grounds that Archbishop Cushing has issued his last public statement on the matter last April...