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...most influential (and most public) branches of the church's government. It serves as the liaison office between Rome and non-Catholic churchmen, will handle the invitations to Protestant and Orthodox leaders who are expected to attend the Second Vatican Council in October as observers. The presiding cleric: Augustin Cardinal Bea, 81, a German Jesuit who was confessor to Pope Pius...
Before dawn one day last week, police and armed civilian partisans of Haiti's President François Duvalier burst in on the country's top remaining Roman Catholic cleric. Haitian-born Bishop Remy Augustin was hustled off to jail so. fast he forgot his dental plates. Fourteen hours later he was expelled from the island. Two days later four more priests were expelled...
...REVEREND AUGUSTIN BEA, 78, a German-born Jesuit scholar and one of the few men to whom a Pope has knelt; for more than 20 years he was the confessor of the late Pope Pius XII. Pope Pius wanted to make him a cardinal in 1946, but Jesuit General Janssens urged the Pope not to, because some Vatican veterans felt that Jesuits had been overly favored (Pius XI had created two Jesuit cardinals, had turned over to the Jesuits both the Vatican radio and the observatory at Castel Gandolfo; Pius XII had two Jesuit private secretaries...
...Augustin Jean Fresnel lost his job as an engineer with the French government in 1815 because he opposed Napoleon's return from Elba. Then he turned his fertile, inventive brain to the problem of getting lighthouses to give more light. Little recognized in his short (1788-1827) life, Fresnel (pronounced Fray-nell) wrought an optical revolution and indirectly saved untold lives by junking the mirrors on which lighthouses had long depended, instead put the light source inside a cylindrical lens with multiple-refracting bands at top and bottom. The resulting Fresnel lens (commonly pronounced Frez-nel) still has many...
Response to the appeal from local alumni has been exceptionally good With $8,543,206 already collected, Augustin H. Parker, Jr. '32, Program chairman for the Boston area, predicted that Boston would exceed its $11,000,000 quota before next June...