Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holy See there is deer and traditional respect; the eight largest States exchange diplomatic representatives with the Vatican. Brazil runs neck-&-neck with Italy as the world's largest Catholic State, although its 40,000,000 Catholics are shepherded by only 6,000 priests.* Bishop Ryan and Father Sheehy, looking businesslike to South American churchmen, who still wear their soutanes in the street, visited papal nuncios and hierarchs, talked with them in Italian and French, found everywhere that Latin American prelates look to the U. S. hierarchy for social and cultural leadership-a leadership which has been slow...
...Sebastian Cardinal Leme da Silveira Cintra, who reminded his visitors of New York's late saintly Cardinal Hayes, greeted them as "spiritual ambassadors." Archbishop Pedro Pascual Farfan of Lima, Peru-an ancient Catholic city which produced the first American saint, St. Rose-addressed Bishop Ryan and Father Sheehy with florid Spanish courtesy, insisted that they sit upon thrones at a reception...
...Naziism is unpopular in South America, although the Nazis are propagandizing hard. Dr. Goebbels' paper Der Angriff recognized Bishop Ryan and Father Sheehy as adversaries, called them "paid propagandists" of President Roosevelt. The two planned the trip themselves and represented nobody but themselves. They recommended strongly, however, that U. S. press and radio services to South America be improved. The Nazis give the South American press a free news service in Spanish and Portuguese, which misrepresents U. S. happenings, and Nazi broadcasts consistently drown out U. S. programs. As Father Sheehy discovered after giving six NBC and CBS broadcasts...
...Papal nuncios in South America collaborate freely with U. S. diplomats. Father Sheehy was informed that: "It's very simple. Neither the American nor the Vatican representatives are looking for more territory, and both are honest...
Last week there arrived in the U. S. an account of a Sunday service at the Circus Krone, a European outfit in London, in which the animals were blessed with full Roman Catholic ritual. Thus a new British organization, the Catholic Circus Guild, made its bow. Dominican Father Cyprian Rice preached a sermon; another Dominican, Prior Antoninus Maguire, sprinkled holy water from an aspergillum on a tiger, a trained Pekingese, some horses and six pretty little albino donkeys. Three large brown bears were brought in, pushed into seats, blessed and photographed, looking clumsily reverent and infinitely...