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...female equality. The ordination of women as priests is a long way off, if it ever comes, but a revival of the office of deaconess may not be so distant. More immediately, the National Council of Catholic Women is seeking smaller concessions, such as proportional representation of women on diocesan commissions...
Even in states and cities where there is no major disagreement about specific grants, the pocketbook rebellion has been sharp. Gaps between diocesan pledges and quotas for 1970 set by the last General Convention were impressive even on a local scale: $425,000 below quota in New York City, $239,000 in Los Angeles, $146,000 in Dallas. In all, the pledges were more than $3.5 million below the national budget quota of $14.7 million. Modeste was undisturbed. In his official report last March, he had written that "the Church, the temporal, institutional body of Christ, must be willing...
...seems to have made a personal fortune on the profits, which went mainly into diocesan funds in India. Even the most notorious recruiter, Father Cyriac Puthenpura, who enlisted at least 500 novices himself, seems to have used his profits for a beneficent purpose: to build the Nirmala Bhavan (Home of the Pure of Heart) Secular Institute for girls in Kerala's Ettumannur district. In his zeal, however, Puthenpura may have oversold his audience. His recruits did not, as he claimed, "live like princesses" in Europe. Like novices everywhere, they had to wash dishes, scrub floors, and perform other menial...
...Victim. The $500,000 purchase agreement, reportedly financed by Frawley, solved the immediate fiscal problems facing the Register publishers, Denver's Catholic Press Society. The paper's national edition was down from 190,000 at the beginning of 1969 to 112,000 recently; the number of its diocesan editions dropped from a high...
Just such a backlash surely cost the Register some subscribers as it moved cautiously left of center under the editorship of Father Daniel Flaherty. But the emphasis on local diocesan life resulting from Vatican II was a more critical factor: several large dioceses decided to publish their own papers, leaving an enlarged Register printing plant underutilized. Now, as part of the sale agreement, Twin Circle-the original weekly backed by Frawley-will also be printed at the Denver plant, which stays in the hands of the former Register owners...