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...those American Roman Catholics who have looked toward Evanston as an opportunity to increase understanding and good will between the various branches of Christendom, Cardinal Stritch's letter will have almost as shattering an effect as Leo XIII's letter on the blight of 'Americanism' had on liberal tendencies in American Roman Catholic circles in the 1890s . . . Dramatic emphasis will be given to the fact that there is a great gulf fixed between the papal church and all other churches. And the world will be told that this gulf yawns wide and deep because...
...throne, and the prince's younger brother, Prince Alfonso, 13. In an official press release covering the princes' visit, Don Juan was significantly referred to as "august," a peculiarly monarchic adjective in Spain and a word applied officially to no blueblood since the abdication of King Alfonso XIII...
...Venice. He was still poor, still giving away his few belongings and launching quixotic business ventures to help his flock. To one visitor he complained that a gold watch he had been given was engraved with the patri archal arms and therefore could not be pawned. When Pope Leo XIII died in 1903 and Cardinal Sarto had to go to Rome for the conclave, he did not have enough money for the railroad fare and the Catholic bank in Venice refused to lend it to him. He got his loan from a Jewish friend and bought a round-trip ticket...
Examination I Friday, June 4 II Wednesday, June 2 III Thursday, May 27 IV Tuesday, June 1 V Thursday, June 3 VI Wednesday, May 26 VII Friday, May 28 VIII Friday, June 4 IX Friday, June 4 X Tuesday, June 8 XI Monday, June 7 XII Saturday, May 29 XIII Saturday, June 5 XIV Friday, May 28 XV Tuesday, June 8 XVI Tuesday, June 8 XVII Wednesday, May 26 XVIII Wednesday...
...century of fascinating contrasts. Literature nourished. Corneille, Racine, Moliere, La Fontaine turned out their masterpieces; Pascal wrote his Pensees, Descartes his Discourse on Method. Medicine, meanwhile, was in a parlous state. In one year, Louis XIII was bled 47 times, got 212 enemas. Louis XIV got the same kind of treatment, but, despite everything his physicians did, he survived for 77 years. By that time, he had done his full part to prepare the deluge...