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Jesus passed it on to him. "If the next Pope does not call himself Clement XV," the vision advised him, "you will know that he is a false Pope." When Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini chose to reign as Paul VI, Abbé Collin became Clement...
Grosjean first became interested in Corsica while studying at the Sorbonne and the Collége de France (among his teachers: Abbé Henri Breuil, the "pope" of prehistory). When he began prospecting for a dig of his own, he remembered that Corsica's prehistoric art had been written off as "very crudely sculpted" while Sardinia, only seven miles away, had yielded a rich crop of 7,000 monuments...
...Smashups. Abbé Renard seriously raises the question of whether the devout Christian should perhaps renounce entirely such a diabolical tool. His answer is no-first, because such a prospect would be practically impossible; second, because sensible driving is a pleasurable good (Renard, 34, a high school chaplain in the northern French village of Bethune, likes to drive himself). The only solution to the ethical problem of the automobile, he affirms, is for Christians to cease reverting to barbarianism the moment they climb behind the wheel...
...forget," warns Abbé Renard, "that you may be a Pharisee yourself...
Ottaviani's office will let the abbé defend himself at a hearing. While the order against his work amounted to a stamp Of disapproval, it was not-as probably would have been the case before Vatican II-outright condemnation...