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...date, 230 people own der Grosse (or its slightly smaller version, priced at only $20,000), and another 600 have placed orders. Among them are King Hussein, Marshal Tito, Archbishop Makarios, Indonesia's Sukarno, Playboy Hugh Hefner and Mao Tse-tung. If LTD customers will not be traveling in such fast company, at least they can ostentatiously watch their TV or chat on the phone as Mercedes 600 sails by. But then, Mercedes passengers may be too exhilarated to notice-their car has a built...
...Roman Catholics, largest U.S. archdiocese, a vigorous leader who upon donning the red hat in 1959 confided, "I am happy for myself, but I am even happier for the people of Chicago," banned parish bingo, renovated dilapidated schools (15 days after he took over as archbishop in 1958, 87 children and three nuns died in a school blaze), racially integrated the parochial school system, declaring, "The glory of Christ demands it"; of cancer; in Chicago...
...private and public; his novels increasingly seemed to offer the inside dope about decisions of state, competing for the attention due the internal truths of spiritual life. The Shoes of the Fisherman was published at the time of the election of Paul VI; its hero is a middle-aged archbishop who becomes Pope, and before the novel is done, his intimately described crisis of private conscience becomes a not-so-hypothetical crisis of world politics...
...Pauw claimed that his movement had the "express backing" of more than 50,000 Catholics, plus the secret support of 30 bishops and "one of the highest ranking officials" in close contact with Rome-by which he seemed to mean Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, Apostolic Delegate to the U.S. Church officials scoff at De Pauw's claim that his movement represents the view of 70% of the nation's Catholics. Every diocesan survey so far shows widespread support for changes in the Mass, which were approved by more than 90% of American bishops. Among them was De Pauw...
Died. Maurilio Cardinal Fossati, 88, Archbishop of Turin since 1930, and one of Italy's most respected churchmen, who was a leading contender for the papacy in 1939 at the young age of 62, went through World War II as an active antiFascist, denouncing the mass transport of Italian laborers to Germany, sheltering Jewish refugees in the homes of Catholics, then, in 1945, persuading the retreating German army to bypass Turin, thus sparing the city from devastation; of pneumonia; in Turin...