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...Vatican spokesman said that Tondi was automatically excommunicated. Countered Tondi: "[The Church] epoch is bound to pass away." At week's end, to dodge an influx of visitors, Communist Tondi moved out of the comfortable apartment where he had been staying. Instead of his cassock, he wore a loud tie and a dark blue pin-striped suit...
...societies. The government of the late Field Marshal Smuts passed a bill that segregated the Indian minority in Durban. Scott found that young Indian men & women were going each evening to camp or stand on a piece of ground that was now reserved for Europeans. He put on his cassock and joined them. Pleasant-looking young white men in athletic clothes gathered with pretty girls under the trees opposite. They attacked the Indians, making hunting cries. They did not touch Scott. They merely said, "If you stand for God, I'm against Him." They knocked down...
...cassock with purple piping; from his shoulders billowed a purple cape and on his chest gleamed a gold cross. He looked taller than his 5 ft. 8 in. He bowed graciously into the wind of applause, smiling a boyish smile. Then he turned his gaunt, discreetly made-up face (Vs base and light tan powder) toward one of the three television cameras on the stage. He said: "Friends, thanks for allowing...
...tries to guide men toward the City of God, but he is a well-known figure in the City of Man. He used to ride in a big black Cadillac, but friends report that he sometimes wears a cilicio (something like a hair shirt) under his well-tailored cassock...
...TIME. The idea of becoming a Cardinal would, I feel certain, horrify Ronnie. He unsuccessfully resisted being made a Monsignor, and for quite a while after that event, his only recognition of his elevation was to wear a brand new piece of adhesive tape at the top of his cassock in lieu of the customary Roman collar...