Word: cabrini
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wouldn't all the Italian papers and the foreign wire services go for the news that Sophia Loren would play the role of Mother Cabrini in a new movie? They sure would-and did, when Carlo Ponti told them so. But last week the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the order that Mother Cabrini founded, showed it was just as adept at deflating phony publicity. "We feel very strongly," wrote Mother Ursula, president of Cabrini College, Radnor, Pa., "that Miss Loren is the worst possible choice to portray a holy woman." In the first place, there...
...hard to imagine how Olmi could have simplified his exposition. There cannot be more than a hundred lines in the film's hour and a quarter. A few shots of Carlo Cabrini's and Ann Canzi's faces define their relations. Short flash-backs played off against Giovanni's activities in Sicily tell the rest...
...children live in Chicago's Cabrini slum-clearance project. They are mostly fatherless Negroes and Puerto Ricans whose mothers work or are on relief. "Some of the older ones had hands that didn't even operate like hands," says the school's director, Marcella Morrison, who taught in Chicago public schools before she went to Greenwich for a year of Montessori training at Nancy Rambusch's Whitby School. "They had never been given anything to handle." At first they were a reserved, hostile bunch, and Director Morrison found that she could barely even talk with them...
Olmi's hero (Carlo Cabrini) is a welder, an ordinary workingman: doomed to his job, tied to his home town. Sicily seems to him an inhospitable place. The company hotel looks like a concrete waffle. The nearest town is huts and ruts. The local night life is limited to a single soda fountain of soul-searing fluorescence. After three weeks in this hell, the miserable welder imagines home as heaven and his fiancée (Anna Canzi) as an angel. When she sends him a letter, he greets it like an annunciation. Eagerly he replies, and soon the fianc...
...Roman Catholic Church, saints are made, not born. Since 1588, when Rome first established strict procedures for canonization, the Congregation of Rites has declared that 211 men and women are, as far as man knows, in the company of God in heaven. Only one is an American, Mother Frances Cabrini (1850-1917). A great many more souls are waiting for similar approval.* Last week the Vatican's Polyglot Press released the latest edition of Index ac Status Causarum Beatificationis Servorum Dei et Canonizationis Beatorum, a 391-page Who's Who of potential saints that lists the names...