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...loyalty to their faith, a vast crowd of Roman Catholics gathered in Buenos Aires last week and victoriously defied Strongman Juan Perón. While a special Corpus Christi procession was held inside the packed cathedral on the Plaza de Mayo, 100,000 Catholics knelt outside under the afternoon sky. After the ceremonies, the crowd formed into a broad river and flowed, slowly and silently at first, toward the federal Congress building...
...Charge of Vandalism. The procession in the cathedral actually took place two days after Corpus Christi Day. Because Perón had cut that feast day from the list of national holidays, the archdiocese of Buenos Aires postponed the traditional Corpus Christi procession from Thursday to Saturday so that more workingmen could attend. In an attempt to divert Catholics from the Plaza de Mayo, Perón & Co. timed Boxer Pascual Pérez homecoming from Japan (where he had defended his world flyweight championship) to coincide with the Corpus Christi ceremonies. At midweek the government invoked the law, passed...
Announced Interior Minister Angel Gabriel Borlenghi: "The prelates had erred in assuming that a procession could be held on Saturday after permission had been given for Corpus Christi Day proper." On Saturday, the Peronista press and radio announced that the ceremonies had been called off. The government drastically slowed down service on streetcar, bus and subway lines leading toward the Plaza de Mayo, but the Catholics came anyway, some of them walking miles from their homes in the suburbs...
Marlowe was born in the same year as Shakespeare (1564). He was the son of a Canterbury shoemaker, but records show that he was a brilliant student. He won a scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Young Marlowe, as everyone agrees, translated Ovid, wrote poems and plays (Hero and Leander, Tamburlaine, Dr. Faustus, Edward II, The Jew of Malta). Records indicate that he was a homosexual and an outspoken atheist, also suggest that he was a secret agent of Queen Elizabeth's government. In 1593, a long charge of atheistic crimes was drawn up against Marlowe, but before...
...Jesuit priests on the faculty of St. Louis University sat down one summer day in 1950 and composed an unprecedented letter to the Vatican. "Reverende Pater, pax Christi," they wrote in their best Latin to the prefect of the library. Then they asked permission to carry out as ambitious a project as their university had ever undertaken. They wanted to microfilm the Vatican Library and bring it back to St. Louis. Neither Historian Lowrie Daly nor Librarian Joseph Donnelly knew "whether the project was possible, or even whether the Vatican would consider it. But we thought it was worth...