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Father Ryan is Secretary of the Administrative Committee of Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in the U. S. His committee, by granting Mr. Woll's plea, will prohibit imports of religious material estimated at $35,000,000 annually, and will transfer this business to U. S. printers, engravers, binders and allied tradesmen...
From these reports it would seem that Roman idealism attracts the Syracusans. Indeed, it is not strange that an institution of learning which starts with an a priori preconception of truth should extend hearty welcome to Papini. "The massive brain and eagle eye" of the Methodist Church presides over the destinies of young Syracuse, and brings it up in the way it should go. Not only does this tend to promote among undergraduates that state of mind called "Fundamentalism", but also to attract embryonic Fundamentalists to its sympathetic bosom...
...matter of cash contributions to the temple, the priests also derived a large profit, Professor Lake declared. Both Roman and Jewish money was in circulation in Jerusalem at the time. The Jewish money was very scarce, but the priests decreed that all contributions to the church should be made in that medium. As a result, the worshippers came to the temple with their Roman money, exchanged it at money lenders' tables for Jewish money on payment of a regular...
...money was then deposited in a tall, trumpet-shaped vase in the temple," Professor Lake continued. "It tinkled through to the bottom and then returned to the money lenders' tables where it was again exchanged for Roman money, and the same fee again charged...
...Professor Lake continued, "it can be seen why Jesus' action in cleansing the temple so incensed the priests. Bankers and those in the meat business have similar feelings in such episodes," he declared, "Why not the priests? They thought him a dangerous man, and urged his death upon the Roman rulers...