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...College of St. Catherine). Though its $16 million endowment is paltry, its 600,000-volume library is tops for Washington campuses. Its first-rate drama department has enlivened capital culture with some 200 plays attended by 550,000 people. It boasts the nation's only school of canon law, complete with a topflight lay lawyer who converted from Judaism. Sometimes called the "West Point of the U.S. clergy," C.U. counts among its living alumni some 55 bishops and more than 40 college presidents...
...Vatican request, C.U.'s canon law faculty prepared for the council a list of proposed reforms of obsolete church laws. In Rome, U.S. bishops waited expectantly but in vain to hear the C.U. ideas. Reason: Rector McDonald never sent them. His critics call-this "even more serious than the speaker...
Rambling Sermon. Compared with the chronological accounts of Jesus' life in Mark or Luke, The Gospel of Philip is not a Gospel at all, and deserves no place in the New Testament canon. In form it is a rambling, epigrammatic sermon or epistle on certain Christian teachings, interpreted from a Gnostic viewpoint. Composed about the middle of the 2nd century, the Gospel could not have been written by Philip the Apostle, who is recorded in John as one of the first disciples gathered by Jesus and as an onlooker at the miracle of the loaves and fishes. In stead...
...everyone's heads. Sophia was asked by her sister Maria, wife of Pianist Romano Mussolini, to be godmother to two-week-old Alessandra. Unfortunately, Sophia's spiritual adviser, Jesuit Father Virginio Rotondi, neglected to tell her that in so doing she would be violating Article 2357 of canon law. So long as Italian and church law block Producer Carlo Ponti's divorce from his present wife-and his marriage to Sophia-she is living in "public concubinage" in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church, and is thereby unfit for godmotherhood. Sighed Sophia...
...fore graduating from the Episcopal Theo logical School at Cambridge, Mass., in 1934. After his ordination, he served a clerical apprenticeship at churches in Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. In 1946 he was called to the chaplaincy of Washing ton's Howard University, and five years later became a canon of Washington Cathedral. Until his consecration, Burgess was Archdeacon of Boston and supervisor of the Episcopal City Mission. Burgess was chosen for the suffragan bishopric over four white candidates on the first ballot at a convention of diocesan priests last September...