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...kidney ailment; in Madrid. His denunciation of Protestantism, and even of Franco's limited religious tolerance ("It causes one real pain to see the tolerance shown toward non-Catholic sects . . .") made him almost as unpopular with many of his fellow Catholics as with Protestants, eventually (1955) caused his diocesan duties to be shifted by the Vatican, in consultation with Franco, to another prelate...
Ready to Switch. The Connellys progressed spectacularly. Pierce was ordained a diocesan priest in the unheard-of time of one year, and Cornelia, although still a postulant, got an even more unusual advancement: by papal command, she was to go to England and found a teaching order. In 1846, Cornelia and two other novices set up a convent and school for the poor at St. Mary's, Derby. Submissive, obedient Cornelia showed another facet as superior of her little group: facing down carpenters and tradespeople, she got the new Society of the Holy Child Jesus off to a strong...
Professional censors are cautious enough; the Vatican's Index contains surprisingly few titles.*But U.S. Catholics, says Kerr, have "dozens of 'little Indexes' that pursue them from the pages of diocesan newspapers, devotional magazines, magazines created especially for the purpose of giving moral ratings to 'bestsellers,' and-finally-from the lips of well-meaning Catholic neighbors ... A few seasons ago a New York playgoer who took his Catholic magazine listings to heart would have felt free to see exactly one legitimate entertainment-Howdy...
After serving as host at a heaping Thanksgiving dinner for elderly folks, Boston's unpompous Archbishop Richard J. Cushing shifted into high, merrily danced an Irish jig with two robustious ewes of his diocesan flock...
...week, another foe of segregation got a fiery reminder that not all Southerners are willing to wrestle with their prejudices. An eight-foot, gasoline-soaked wooden cross was ignited before the residence of Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel, who has called segregation "morally wrong and sinful," allowed his diocesan newspaper to talk of excommunication for Catholics who block his policy of church and school integration. One organization of segregationist Catholic laymen is appealing to Rome after having been forced by the archbishop to disband...