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...subject to the sovereignty of the State but the Pontiff himself, the supreme authority of the Church. ... If there were the least animosity and bitterness in our soul we would say that these not infrequent expressions of no renunciation, of no concession from the State to the Church offend...
...suggest that in future you use single, double, triple and so on dashes according to the number of letters in the words deleted. Thus if one of your correspondents referred to some person as a - - - - -- it would offend no one, and at the same time members of the Ancient & Honorable Order of Occasional Swearers could figure it out and rest assured that the writer is a brother and not some rank outsider in Russian, Chinese or Sanskrit...
...Springs, S. Dak., one Lloyd Linton, 33, father of four, was suddenly moved to a paroxysm of religious fervor while standing in his brother's sawmill. "If thy right hand offend thee, cut it off," cried Linton's thoughts. Later Linton explained: "So I cut it off and prayed to God not to let it bleed much. It didn't." Handless Linton did not state how his hand had offended...
...Lansing, Michigan's capital, state senators and assemblymen, many of them fathers of large families, spoke harshly of him who spoke so boldly. It was undiplomatic to offend the legislators. They make yearly appropriations for the university. Many a pessimistic citizen envisaged the legislature, outraged, refusing its usual generous allowance to the state's education. And in 1927 when Dr. Little asked $4,925,000 for lands and buildings the legislature granted him only $3,950,000 which by Governor's veto was promptly cut down...
...Salvador de Madariaga rose and presented with serenity and wit the case for esthetics. By the decisive vote of 286 to 237 the Oxford Union balloted that vernacular George II had lost the debate. Were George II Roman Catholic, in stead of Greek Orthodox, his remarks would have deeply offended the many Roman Catholics who know that His Holiness (once a famed mountain climber) dis approves of certain modern excesses in athletics, especially where women are concerned. The Papal stand was again emphasized, last week, when Osservatore Romano, famed spokesorgan of the Vatican, thundered at Rome : "Gymnastic and athletic competitions...