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...Messages between prisoners and families go by ordinary post. A member of the family may reply through the Vatican by using a special form. These messages must contain only family chitchat, cannot exceed 25 words, must not mention military topics, weather, geographical locations. Incoming & outgoing messages clear through local diocesan offices, enter or leave the country by Washington's Apostolic Delegation. There, under the supervision of Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, ten to 24 seminarians are on duty to receive and dispatch the communications. All messages pass through censorship...
...Episcopal Church's canon law the only divorced person who may have the church's blessing on a new marriage is the innocent party in a divorce for adultery. Last week the church's Joint Commission on Holy Matrimony began to sound out diocesan opinion on two proposed canons that would somewhat relax this rule. The findings will determine the Commission's final report to the General Convention in Cleveland next October...
...Maude Chavasse, Bishop of Rochester (England), who lost a leg in an auto accident, his diocese sent nearly $3,000 for the purchase of a new leg. To the diocese the Bishop sent a note: "By the time you read this letter, I ought to be experimenting with my diocesan leg. It is a miracle of contrivance, complete with ball bearings and the latest gadgets. More than Saint Paul with his Churches, I ought to bear you in my heart now that I shall be borne on your...
Ranking Roman Catholics were equally emphatic. The Pilot, diocesan organ of William Cardinal O'Connell of Boston, last week editorialized: "Wars can be just. Violence may be used against the unjust aggressor." Said the other U.S. holder of the red hat, Dennis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia: "Like our fellow American citizens we will do our utmost to protect our country by winning the war, and...to that end we place at the disposal of our Government everything in our possession...
...press ranging from the socially radical Catholic Worker, to the liberal Commonweal, to the Brooklyn Tablet, and Father Coughlin's quasi-fascist Social Justice (the last two called by the Florida Catholic "the Brooklyn-Royal Oak Axis"). They point also to the pro-Roosevelt cast of such leading diocesan papers as the Chicago New World, the San Francisco Monitor, the Pittsburgh Catholic. But the influential Catholic newspaper-the Brooklyn Tablet-and the two most influential magazines-America, the Catholic World -are still isolationist. Commonweal (most widely read by non-Catholics) supported aid-to-Britain until the Nazi invasion...