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...heart of the young Duke & Earl (he is only 22) undoubtedly beat fast. If the skeleton of the Earl were found to be missing or could not be identified. Pope Pius XI would refuse beatification. But if the skeleton proved to be all right, and if suitable documents were found in the coffin, all would be well. No Howard yearns for further earthly honors; but the young Duke & Earl, educated by priests and brought up by a supremely devout mother, yearns devoutly for the holy joy of having an ancestor beatified...
...reads a majority report issued last week by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America.* So does U. S. Protestantism disagree with Pope Pius XI and some Church of England bishops on the subject of Birth Control...
Bishop Auxiliary John J. Dunn of New York and Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley of Baltimore promptly replied for Catholicism to the Protestants' report. Archbishop Curley called it a "confession of moral bankruptcy." Bishop Dunn quoted His Holiness, Pope Pius XI: "Since, therefore, the conjugal act is destined primarily by nature for the begetting of children, those who in exercising it deliberately frustrate its natural power and purpose, sin against nature and commit a deed which is shameful and in- trinsically vicious. . . . No reason, however grave, may be put forward by which anything against nature may become conformable to nature...
...Strickland charged that the Roman Catholic clergy of Malta, in an effort to control the elections, have pronounced it a mortal sin to vote for Malta's Constitutional or Labor Parties. This charge, and the Roman Catholic one that Lord Strickland has interfered with the authority of Pope Pius XI over the Maltese priesthood (TIME, June 2 et seq.) chiefly constitute the "Maltese Question...
With great though respectful excitement British editors and even the House of Commons discussed last week this question: Can Pope Pius XI so contrive that John Pierpont Morgan will be unable to take the Archbishop of Canterbury on a "sunshine cruise" to the Holy Land in his yacht Corsair...