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...spoke there listened 240 Senators, divided into six groups as follows: 1) the 4 Archdukes, by hereditary right;* and 34 representatives of the old Hungarian nobility, by election from that class; 2) 80 representatives of urban and rural councils, elected for five year terms; 3) 30 representatives of the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish faiths; 4) high dignitaries of the State, Judiciary, Army; 5) 40 Senators elected by Chambers of Commerce, Chambers of Agriculture, and representing "Big Business"; 6) 40 appointees nominated by the Cabinet and appointed by the Regent...
...more prevalent among carnivores than among flesh-abstainers, or the opposite? It would be possible, scientists reasoned, to segregate batches of humans, like laboratory mice, and study the effects of diets. But that would be inconvenient. Then a keen mind in the Ministry of Health fixed attention on the Roman Catholic monasteries in England. The monks living in them follow regimens as regular, definite and controlled as could ever be kept up for laboratory specimens. The Cistercians never eat meat or fish; the Carthusians eat no meat, nor do they smoke or talk; the Benedictines eat meat sparingly, three days...
...religious subjects. The Sunday Afternoon Lecture Course on Religion has been continued this year with an average attendance, during the first half year of about 300 men. Professor R. C. Cabot opened the course by speaking on "The Need of Religion." The Rev. A. F. Hickey spoke on "Roman Catholicism", Rabbi S. S. Wise on "Judaism," Dean W. L. Sperry on "Protestantism," Prof. Kirsopp Lake on "The Modern Trend of Religion," and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick on "The Future of the Church." In addition to these speakers, Raymond Robins spoke on "The Outlawry of War," Prof. A. T. Davison, Prof...
...Alphonse Daudet, whose Letters from My Mill breathe such quietude, seemingly had written amok. For this there was some excuse. Only the day before His Holiness had placed L'Action on the index ex-purgatorius, had banned it to most of its royalist subscribers who are Roman Catholics...
...cross, for he made this will three days before his death from pneumonia, when he was too feeble for greater exertion. Half of the estate's residue, about $1,400,000 is willed to Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York. That might mean me personally, for Roman Catholic prelates are permitted to own private fortunes. But Lawyer-Banker Whalen's own lawyer, Edmund L. Mooney, an Episcopalian, who witnessed the will, says that the late John Whalen intended me to be trustee for the Archdiocese of New York...