Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Protestant was angular, deep-voiced, intense Dr. Richard Roberts. Presbyterian theologian and onetime moderator of the United Church of Canada. The Catholic was a famed convert, bespectacled, dynamic, firm-jawed Rev. William Edwin Orchard of London. To bring the two together for a series of four joint lectures, the...
The Copernican theory that the earth is a planet and moves round the sun did not attract the serious concern of the Inquisition until it began to look as if Galileo was proving it. His first brush with the Holy Office resulted in nothing more than an eloquent, friendly warning...
As a further incentive, the Nazis have promised unmarried mothers who register the paternity of their children as "war father" the right to sign Fran (Mrs.) before their maiden names; and promised to support children born out of wedlock whose fathers are killed in the war. Fortnight ago these encouragements...
The agency best able to gather information on Nazi treatment of Poland is the Catholic Church. Last week the Vatican radio let go for three days running on this subject, later released a bloodcurdling, stomach-turning report on treatment of Poles prepared by Augustus Cardinal Hlond, Primate of Poland, Archbishop...
Large, powerfully built Cardinal Hlond, friend of Polish farmers and laborers, an educator with a liberal, modern tinge, had long worked to heal the age-old enmity of Germany and Poland. Excerpts from His Eminence's report to Pope Pius XII and the radio digest of it: