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...raiment in Spain stays mainly on the plain side; the church sees to it that feminine fashions contribute as little as possible to man's proclivity toward sin. But summertime sports like swimming and tennis present special perils, and in last week's Ecclesia, official organ of Catholic Action in Spain, Bishop Ramon Masnou of Vich warned priests of his diocese to be watchful. Wrote the bishop: "We wish to call special attention to dresses in female sports . . . Modesty must never be sacrificed in sport, nor should sport become a subterfuge for perverse exhibitionism. Bear this in mind...
...addition, he directs four book collections for three different publishers, runs a quarterly magazine for a Catholic intellectual center, edits a monthly religious digest called Ecclesia (circ. 100,000), lectures about every other week, writes four or five newspaper or magazine articles a month, and answers 18 to 20 letters a day, mostly from people with problems...
...Carlos Romulo, the university has never bestowed it with quite the same feeling as in the case of Father Smith. But Father Smith's big night did not end there. In a surprise appearance, the Apostolic Delegate presented him in the name of the Pope the cross "Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice...
...when the Russians began to complain with more and more insistence that he was not listening to their advice, Tito professed bewilderment. In the exchange of letters with Stalin and Molotov in 1948 which led to his excommunication from the Communist ecclesia, there was an air of incredulity that the Russians really did not mean what they said about the independent nature of each people's democracy. Answering a Soviet charge that its Soviet military advisers were treated with "hostility," Tito protested: "We are amazed, we cannot understand, and we are deeply hurt." Wouldn't the Soviet government...
Madrid's official Roman Catholic weekly ECCLESIA, the only publication in Spain that escapes government censorship, attacking the new restrictive press law proposed by Franco's Chief Censor GABRIEL ARIAS SALGADO...