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...importance of belief. And he has little excuse for doubt about how his beliefs apply to his relationships with God or his neighbor. Can a good Roman Catholic, then, approve of Communism? The answer is no. Can he wholeheartedly endorse free private enterprise? The answer is still no.* Diocesan study groups and Catholic labor schools are doing their best to fight Communism with something more than exorcism and epithets. Last week one of the leaders in this field, Jesuit Father William J. Smith, director of Brooklyn's Crown Heights Labor School, explained his church's position: "Business...
Last week St. Louis' Archbishop Joseph Elmer Ritter ripped down this racial bar. He announced that Negro children could attend any diocesan school within their parishes. More than 700 white Catholic parents banded together to protest the seating of Negroes next to their children. They knocked at the Archbishop's door; he would not see them. They threatened court action; they would hire a lawyer and ask for an injunction against the Archbishop...
...action in these two dioceses is a dishonor to the Episcopal Church and it arouses grave fears as to the effects of our recently adopted canon on marriage. Does this mean that through the wrong interpretation of the canon by some diocesan chancellors and the weakness of some bishops we are now to have a number of ecclesiastical and moral Renos, and the consequent abolition of any Christian standard of marriage, in the church...
...current American Ecclesiastical Review, Father Joseph F. Donnelly, director of the Hartford (Conn.) Diocesan Labor Institute, analyzed the results of an examination on the social encyclicals given this spring to the junior clergy*of his diocese. Some of his findings...
When all local examinations are completed, the documents of the case proceed to the Congregation of Rites in Rome, where they are meticulously reviewed, approved by the Pope (in his Christian name, so as not to compromise papal authority) and returned to the diocesan tribunals for a second pleading. Once again the postulators and devil's advocates examine the Servant of God's writings, study her local reputation for saintliness, make sure that no public act of homage, prayer, or religious devotion has ever been paid to the individual under examination. If they and the Congregation of Rites...