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...Supreme Pontiff & Vicar of Christ must not, does not and cannot lower himself sufficiently to become one of two persons who are quarreling. The truth of this statement became luminous, last week, as discussion waxed hot in Italy upon the recent and contradictory speeches of Pope Pius XI and Prime Minister Mussolini-speeches which had seemed to place them on opposite sides of a dispute as to whether the education of Italian youths shall be purely secular and Fascist, or partially religious and Roman Catholic (TIME, April 9). Round 1 of the apparent quarrel had ended when Il Duce backed...
...Author is 44 years old, the son of an English vicar, the brother of John Cowper Powys, author and lecturer and T. F. Powys, novel-writer, a graduate of Cambridge. In 1909, afflicted with tuberculosis, he went to a Swiss sanatorium, an experience about which he later wrote a book. In 1914, still diseased, he went to South Africa for five years: this visit supplied the material for Ebony & Ivory, Black Laughter. In 1920, he came to the U. S. without fame, wealth or a wife; in 1925, he left the U. S. with all three and lived in England...
...trouble His Majesty still further, came last week at St. Cuthbert's church, Darwen, Lancashire, an actual beginning of physical strife over the great spiritual issue. When the Rev. F. B. Lauria, Vicar of St. Cuthbert's, attempted with pro-Catholic technique the "sung Eucharist," some 200 pro-Protestant parishioners rose up with loud, spontaneous hymns to drown the chanting of the Eucharist. Soon they fell to shouting extracts from the old Prayer Book, to shaking angry fists. Police, hastily summoned, got Vicar Lauria safely away, but not until a booing mob of 1,000 had collected wrathfully...
Said America, national U. S. Catholic weekly: "Logically, the Holy Father holds it impossible to conceive of a Christian society where each is free to believe as he lists. . . . Others may whittle away or compromise their principles; not, however, the Vicar of Christ. To assume that he can is to grant that the Spirit of Truth may fail the Church...
...Vicar Grindle had married the 30-year-old nurse who tended his first wife on her deathbed. The wedding took place five weeks after the death. Said the new Mrs. Grindle: "By remarrying, the vicar has paid the best compliment to the memory of his [first] wife. I nursed her and know her chief concern was how Harry would get on without assistance...