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...most people today as was the evil of Nazism. Britain's Oestreicher allows that "tyranny is not peace" and believes that the use of violence against tyranny may be moral (for instance, the Hungarian uprising), but at the same time condemns the Vietnamese war as unjust. The Archbishop of Canterbury defends the U.S. right to be in Viet Nam because it is there "with the right motive, withstanding Communist aggression," but refuses to concede that any modern war can be just...
...offer this Mass to you as a personal gift," said San Juan's Archbishop Luis Aponte Martinez. "What else could I or the church offer you that could be of any value?" In response, two threads of tears appeared on the cheeks of Cellist Pablo Casals, celebrating his 90th birthday. After the service, the maestro returned with his 30-year-old wife Marta and a small group of friends to his seaside villa, where he opened hundreds of gifts and cables from all over the world. Casals' birthday festival in San Juan lasted two days, ending with...
...Cardinal Spellman. In setting up a formal hierarchical synod under the title of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the prelates also made provisions for electing its officers. Chosen on the third ballot as first president of the conference was the Most Rev. John Francis Dearden, 59, the progressive Archbishop of Detroit...
After 50 years as a priest-27 of them as Archbishop of New York-New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, 77, might have welcomed a rest. So when Pope Paul VI suggested that bishops over age 75 retire to allow younger men to take over their responsibilities, Cardinal Spellman "humbly and willingly" offered his resignation. Although the cardinal has already turned over many duties to his six auxiliary bishops, the Pope asked him to carry on. "I accept this decision," said the cardinal, "as God's will...
Pope Paul has frequently expressed his conviction that the training of priests must be brought more into line with modern pedagogy-and the appointment of such men as Archbishop Garrone and Father Carrier is a step in that direction. The changes will come none too soon for the seminarians, who have lately displayed signs of restlessness at the archaic rules that still determine their training. Last year one group of students at the Greg circulated a petition demanding an updating of the curriculum, began to boycott classes when the administration gave a temporizing response. As it happens, Father Carrier...