Word: priestly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most Negroes elected to serve in legislative chambers with white men are noticeable only because they are black or because they blatantly insist on their race's rights. Oscar De Priest and his successor, Arthur Mitchell, only two Negroes elected to the U. S. Congress since Reconstruction, rated far below average in ability. Not so Homer Brown. Quiet, effective, popular, he is sought out by his white colleagues for his opinions on constitutional law-which is his heavyweight hobby. That attribute, plus his oratorical persuasiveness, pegs him as the lower house's most influential member on nonpartisan legislation...
...Quite recently I talked to a newspaper friend of mine who is now a priest. I said to him that I wanted to know if there was anything in Catholicism which stood in the way of any person who believed in political and economic progressivism. And my friend smiled and answered: 'Don't you realize that you're a little naïve, Heywood? You like to call yourself a radical, but the doctrines of the Church to which I belong imply so many deep changes in human relationship that when they are accomplished-and they will...
...today happily married to a Catholic second wife-Constantina Maria Incoronata Fruscella Dooley ("Connie") Broun. But "Connie," firm as she is in dealing with her husband, did not bully him into turning Catholic. Broun's conversion came slowly, was sealed in the talk with the newspaper friend turned priest-Rev. Edward Patrick Dowling, S. J., 40, associate editor of the Queen's Work in St. Louis, distant kinsman of Actor Eddie Dowling. Jesuit Dowling, once a crack baseballer, called "Puggy" by St. Louis schoolmates, worked on the Globe-Democrat before he became a priest in 1931, is today...
...become a Catholic, it is not enough to tell the nearest priest that you want to join the Church. You must hold an intellectual conviction that the Church is the True Church. You must then exhibit a "good will to believe" in God's revelation. Finally you must make the act of faith, wholly supernatural, in God. At present Heywood Broun is receiving instruction in Catholic belief from one of the ablest of U. S. priests, Monsignor Fulton John Sheen (who also instructed Convert Mann). Columnist Broun will be received into the Church late this month. Thereafter...
...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 the dean of Seattle's Episcopal Cathedral announced that a benediction would be pronounced by the President...