Word: diocesans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long-drawn Process. But good works and great sanctity are not all it takes to make a saint. One of the things it takes is a lawsuit-long-drawn, intricate and complex. In the first step toward canonization a diocesan tribunal is appointed in each diocese where the candidate has lived. Before this tribunal a local Vice Postulator pleads the candidate's "Cause" while a Promoter of the Faith (the "devil's advocate") makes all possible objections at every turn...
Last week, devout Catholics who were also Rotarians were told by their spiritual father, Bishop Eugene Limoges of Mont-Laurier, that this was wrong. In a 900-word pastoral letter read from all diocesan pulpits, Bishop Limoges said: "Catholics cannot be neutral [in effect, they cannot divorce their social life from Catholicism]. . . . Instead of frequenting non-Catholic . . . clubs, they should establish, for themselves exclusively, similar associations." Specifically mentioned: Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis, Elks, Moose...
...Pope neglect the traditionally Protestant part of Europe. Britain's stocky, genial Bernard Griffin, 46, was the youngest cardinal appointed; Archbishop Johannes de Jong of Utrecht was the first Dutch diocesan to receive the red hat since the Reformation...
Said Britain's Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, in a diocesan letter which the London Times reprinted last week: ". . . The most unendurable revelation of what has been done in concentration camps has not only shocked us, but shows us how perverted her people are. For the people as a whole cannot be acquitted of knowledge and of acquiescence. But we must not allow ourselves to think that there are no good Germans. Let us always remember that thousands of Germans suffered and died in those camps in their resistance to the Nazi regime...
Sincerely yours in Christ, Rev. Stanislaus Orlemanski." Said Apostolic Delegate Amleto Gio vanni Cicognani in Washington: Father Orlemanski has not "contacted the Apos tolic Delegation." He also said that Father Orlemanski, "like every other diocesan priest is directly subject to his Bishop." Last Sunday Father Orlemanski did not officiate at the four Masses attended by most of his 3,200 parishioners. By nightfall he had disappeared. Next day he was re ported to be suffering from nervous ex haustion. A complete rest was prescribed...