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...editor of the Catholic Register since its founding in Denver in 1913; following abdominal surgery; in Denver. Starting with a circulation of 2,800, Father Smith worked "ungodly hours" to expand the Register into the world's biggest chain of religious newspapers, with one national and 32 diocesan weekly editions, an international semimonthly, and a combined circulation of 850,000. Under Father Smith, the Register's interests ranged from speculation on church appointments (FOUR RED HATS EXPECTED) to Catholic views on U.S. foreign policy (CATHOLIC...
...xenophobic nationalism, sometimes as a reversion to witch craft and tribal rituals, sometimes as a corruption of Christian teaching in splinter sects, often as an upsurge of Islam with its tolerance of polygamy and a theology far less demanding than Christianity's. Last week, in the monthly York Diocesan leaflet Dr. Arthur M. Ramsey. Archbishop of York and Primate of England,* published an alarmed eyewitness account of the crisis. Writing from the town of Lilongwe (pop. 350 whites and 5,000 Negroes) in Nyasaland, Archbishop Ramsey envisaged the loss of all Africa to Christianity, because to more and more...
...Pope's close supervision during the past year, the committee examined thousands of suggestions from parish priests, high church officials and leading laymen. The articles themselves will not be published for weeks, but enough is known about them to form a broad picture of Rome's new diocesan constitutions, which Roman Catholic bishops everywhere are urged to follow in their own dioceses-with a big reservation-"as far as local conditions permit...
...Public opinion, which once ostracized adulterers, does it no longer," sighed the Archbishop of Canterbury in his Diocesan Letter last week. A month ago the archbishop proposed that adultery be treated as a crime. The argument has been boiling along ever since...
Answering blasts came from the Catholic press. "Protestant misrepresentatives like Bishop Pike," said the Catholic News, newspaper of the Archdiocese of New York, differ from the Ku Klux Klan "only in degree." The Brooklyn Tablet, another diocesan paper, said it would be "the Fifth Essence of Arrogance-the kind that foretells madness," for the U.S. to allow other nations to believe that Americans want to encourage a slowdown of other peoples' population growth...