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...success has brought problems that Puerto Ricans never thought would worry them. Emigration to the main land, their traditional answer to chronic overpopulation, has slowed as jobs have become more plentiful at home. Vigorous opposition from the Roman Catho ic Church has all but wrecked any ef ective government birth control program. Population is now increasing at an average 2.3% a year (v. 1.5% in the 50 states), and at this rate - with no marked rise in emigration - will nearly double in the next 30 years. Today the island occupies a unique but not entirely comfortable economic status...
Despite these disappointments. Oberman said that the litur a reforms adopted by the Council were encouraging, and will prove very important." He noted that they brought the Catho. He tradition closer to the Protestant. One of the major changes has been the introduction of vernacular language into parts of the mass...
...fingered Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton, a friend of the new cardinal since 1948. Musician Hampton, who kissed Cardinal Ritter's ring just after the formal papal announcement of his appointment, had made a special trip with a group of Catholics from Indianapolis, Ritter's former diocese. A onetime Catho lic altar boy who now belongs to no church but considers himself "a good-will ambassador of God," Hampton explained: "Cardinal Ritter's work for integration and in the educational field has given our courts real incentive to help the cause of integration. Before, I thought the world...
...Strauss an interpreter. Then, finding that he was untainted by Nazi ties, they gave him a local-government job. Under American supervision, a new Catholic party was being formed in Bavaria. Joining forces with those who wanted to make it a modern conservative party to include Protestant merchants and Catho lic trade unionists as well as the peasant diehards, Strauss was named secretary-general of the new Christian Social Union...
...Roman Catholics are expressly forbidden to use contraceptives. But does the ban also apply to the "Catholic form of birth control" known as the Rhythm . Method?* Last week Servite Missionary Father Hugh Calkins, known to millions of U.S. Catholics for his columns in the weekly pamphlet Novena Notes, warned Catho-lies to be wary of it. In the current issue of Integrity Father Calkins goes to work on the "beauty-shop theologians and gabfest experts" who contend that Rhythm has the church's blessing...