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...interest in Great Britain that the Government has considered taxing all bets, and the Church of England's Men's Society, meeting in London, considered what might be done to stop the gambling evil. One cleric told the Society that some men in his parish bet on whether the vicar would preach on a text from the Old or the New Testament. No one thought of betting on the dark horse. They found the vicar preaching on the text Revision of the Prayer Book...
...Department of State has canceled the authorization for a visa for Mme. Kalinin, wife of the President of the so-called Soviet Republic of Russia. The presence of Mme. Kalinin in this country is rendered wholly undesirable by the deep feeling which has been aroused by the execution of Vicar General Butchkavitch. The action of the department is taken especially in protest against this execution...
...three theological virtues-faith, hope, charity- and the four cardinal virtues-prudence, justice, courage, temperance. The Abbe Pierami, procurator general of the Valombrosan Benedictines, was elected chief postulator for Italy. It is stated that all the Sacred College living in Rome, with the exception of Cardinal Pompili, who as Vicar of Rome must be the judge in the beatification process, signed the petition to the Pope...
Monsignor Constantine Butchkavitch, Vicar General of the Roman Catholic Church in Russia, was murdered by order of a barbarian court. These tidings have resounded throughout the civilized world; in some cases pogroms have been carried out against the Jews, who are held fallaciously by anger-blind people to be responsible for the prelate's death for no other reason than that the arch-fiends at Moscow are said to be Jews-a contention not entirely true. In other countries where the common rudiments of law and order are preserved more by instinct than by compulsion, many millions of people...
Ukraine. Bolshevik troops are reported to have executed about 350 peasants for protesting against the Vicar General's death. In some parts of the Ukraine the peasants have killed or put to flight a number of Jews...