Word: secularism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Catholics read nothing but their diocesan papers in recent months they would have heard precious little of their Holy Father's declining health until it began making secular front pages daily. Stubbornly denying until recent weeks that the Pope's ailments were at all serious, Vatican functionaries set up a censorship of telephone calls, the word always perforce being: "The Pope is well." When the Pope learned at Christmas time what was being printed about him, he ex- claimed: "I must get up, sit on the sedia gestatoria and bless the pilgrims." Last week when few doctors could...
...have her put to death in order to take the next into his arms, the Archbishop of Canterbury had no objections. ... A considerable part of the property belonging to the present English aristocracy had its origin in the plundering of Church property by Henry VIII who awarded it to secular and ecclesiastical magnates. And now that the descendants of those pillagers cry out about the 'pillage' of Church property [in Soviet Russia] and protest against such 'sacrilege' in the name of religion, every class-conscious English worker must be laughing in their faces." It was Journalist...
...Press these explanations of the advent of the most potent Catholic prelate ever to take ship for New York were decidedly inadequate. Only a visit from His Holiness himself could be of greater import to U. S. Catholics. To make sense of Cardinal Pacelli's trip, secular gossips worked overtime, evolved several theories: The Cardinal, perhaps, was being dispatched to Washington to negotiate a resumption of diplomatic relations between the U. S. and the Vatican, breached in 1867 when Congress, foreseeing the end of the Papal State's temporal power, stopped appropriating money to maintain a minister...
...Leftists who pointed to their monkish habits, cried: "We kill you for this!" The Claretians replied: "We are happy to die for this! Vivo Cristo El Rey!" At Calaselles 18 Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God were slaughtered and in Valencia, while the Cathedral burned brightly, 30 secular priests were shot. In Malaga, 50 priests were executed by a machine gun squad. More determinedly irreligious than elsewhere in Spain, Barcelona mobs burned all but two churches in that city, ripped out religious paintings and statuary, tore open tabernacles and ground Sacred Hosts on the floor. Not content with such...
...traction fortune, vice president of Philadelphia's Market Street National Bank and professor of business law at the University of Pennsylvania. Malvern has a mailing list of 6,000 men who have made at least one retreat there. Total attendance last year was 4,132. The secular spadework of organizing the gatherings is divided up among retreat captains, chairman of whom is wiry young William ("Bill") Lennox, business manager of athletics at Penn. Worked up to a great state of pious enthusiasm by Chairman Lennox, Retreat Captain Tom O'Connor, master boilermaker at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, mustered...