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...Catholics read nothing but their diocesan papers in recent months they would have heard precious little of their Holy Father's declining health until it began making secular front pages daily. Stubbornly denying until recent weeks that the Pope's ailments were at all serious, Vatican functionaries set up a censorship of telephone calls, the word always perforce being: "The Pope is well." When the Pope learned at Christmas time what was being printed about him, he ex- claimed: "I must get up, sit on the sedia gestatoria and bless the pilgrims." Last week when few doctors could...
...Conference Hall of the Diocesan Clergy at Bradford in the North of England: The obese, cheery Bishop of Bradford who likes to eat with his servants, play golf and work crossword puzzles, castigates King Edward in words applicable either to His Majesty's keeping company with Mrs. Simpson or to the Sovereign's skimpy attendance at Church. "In his public capacity at his Coronation he stands for the English people's idea of Kingship!" booms the Bishop. "[The King] needs the grace of God. . . . We hope he is aware of his need! Some of us wish...
...Mary's has not always been the most famous little (enrollment: 380) football college on the West Coast. An old diocesan institution which was handed over in 1868 to the Brothers of the Christian Schools (a teaching body of monastic laymen), St. Mary's slowly declined, was on its last legs when the War emptied its classrooms. In 1920 the University of California overwhelmed its puny football team 127-to-0. Smarting, little St. Mary's next year hired a young Notre Dame graduate, Edward Patrick ("Slip") Madian, as football coach. Slip Madigan began to turn...
...Evanston gathering, whose deliberations took place in the diocesan Pro-Cathedral of St. Luke, was impressive, devout, tedious. Chief subjects considered by their excellencies of Canada, the U. S. and the West Indies were Peace and Christian Unity. Washington's Bishop James Edward Freeman opened the Pan-American Congress with this observation: "State craft has utterly failed to abolish war, and Christianity must come to the rescue or civilization and the church will perish from the earth!'' Bishop Irving Peake Johnson of Colorado disagreed. Said he: "It is impossible for the church to alter political systems...
...have been those of Los Angeles' new Arch bishop. Last week's promotion signalized the phenomenal increase of Catholic population in the Los Angeles area since Churchman Cantwell was installed as Bishop in 1917. It also rewarded him for distinguished moral service to his Church. Having his diocesan offices in Los Angeles' busy Petroleum Securities Building where he rubbed elbows with bankers, brokers and cinemagnates, Archbishop Cantwell used to try to persuade the latter to keep salaciousness out of their films, finally decided that the only way to move them was "to hit them in the pocketbook...