Word: concordat
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Lewis '08 opened the debate for the affirmative by describing the history of Napoleon's concordat with the Pope from its adoption to the present day. Almost from the beginning it was realized that a fracture was the inevitable result of such a system; while the steady growth of the functions of the State, and the decline of the temporal power of the Church made the existing relations between the two absolutely incompatible. A. C. Lurie '09 continued the argument, showing how the Separation Act of 1905, planned to meet the necessity made clear in the first speech, was entirely...
...humorous, and was aimed at proving the cases chosen by his opponents to be sporadic. Butler, closing the debate for the affirmative, said the question was to be looked at from a broad point of view, without taking into consideration mere technicalities. Thus, the so-called Organic Articles of Concordat, though never signed by the Pope, had been in force for 104 years and constituted a status...
...breaking of the Concordat of 1801, said Father de la Chapelle, was in itself an unspeakable act on the part of the government. The government declared that by breaking the Concordat the church and the state would be made independent of each other; but in reality the object of the breach was to enable the state to control the church and appropriate all its property to state uses. When the Pope protested against such action on the part of the state, an agreement was suggested by the latter that worship associations, composed of persons interested in the church, be instituted...
...Henri de La Chapelle of Boston on the general subject of the Church crisis in France will be held this evening at 7.30 o'clock in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House. The special subject for this conference will be "The Church and State in France. From the concordat to the war of 1870." The meeting will be open to all members of the University...
January 17--Conference: Rev. Henri de La Chapelle of Boston on "The Church and State in France. From the Concordat...