Word: churchless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moldy traditionalist is Father James J. A. Troy, Wartime army chaplain, who took over the new and churchless St. Austin's parish in Minneapolis two years ago. He had already built five smalltown, debt-free churches in Iowa, some unconventional but none radically modern. This time he wanted a church that would look as useful as he thought he could make it. To designs submitted by numerous firms, Father Troy had but one answer: "Yes, they are very beautiful, but not my nightmare." Archbishop John Gregory Murray put no stone in his way when the well-known local firm...
...Artillery Armory had its first public function. For the Citizens' Military Observance Patriotic Mass Meeting, 3,000 patriotic citizens appeared. Field guns lined the big hall. On the platform sat the great & good of Seattle's churches. Unconsidered among these bigwigs sat an uninvited guest -an obscure, churchless Congregational minister, Rev. Louis E. Scholl, 62. As he listened to the invocation by a Roman Catholic priest and a speech on peace and democracy by Major General John F. O'Ryan (retired), Mr. Scholl was outwardly calm. Inwardly, however, he seethed with secret resolution. When at last...
...Federal District of Mexico City, where some 400 priests were officiating in more than 200 Catholic churches last week, the new law would impose a limit of 24 priests, 24 churches. If strictly enforced it would leave Lower California with one priest, one church and Quintana Roo priestless, churchless. Thus once again THE REVOLUTION, which in Mexico means the Government plus its supporters, struck at Mother Church. Not a single Mexico City daily newspaper printed Archbishop Diaz's denunciation of what both houses of Mexico's Congress had unanimously voted. Protestant denominations did not complain. The largest...