Word: feltin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christianized? Last spring Maurice Cardinal Feltin, Archbishop of Paris, asked permission from the Vatican's Holy Office to revive the worker-priests under strict controls. Back from Rome came a firm no. Last week, as French cardinals and bishops met in Paris to discuss the situation, the Holy Office's confidential directive was published in Le Monde (after an obvious leak, perhaps from a disgruntled French prelate...
...last week began the third plenary assembly of the French Catholic Church since World War II. Except for the microphone on the table in front of Cardinal Liénart, where he presided with his fellow cardinals (Feltin of Paris. Gerlier of Lyon, Grente of Le Mans. Roques of Rennes), the scene might have been one from the church's potent medieval past. But St. Louis IX of France (1215-70) would have been saddened by the three grim problems before the French hierarchy : 1) the growing shortage of priests, 2) the defiance of the Worker Priests...
...wreck the worker priest movement, e.g., Communist inroads, marriage by some priests. For one thing, the sisters are kept under tight discipline, report frequently to their superior; for another, working mostly with women, they do not face so tough a political opposition. Abbe Roussel, who reports directly to Cardinal Feltin of Paris, looks forward to seeing his secular movement turn eventually into a full-fledged religious order...
...Novelist Colette-whose books were far from other-worldly-had been twice divorced, was long out of communion with the church. Last week, in the weekly Figaro Littéraire, British Novelist Graham (The End of the Affair) Greene, a Roman Catholic convert, took Paris' Cardinal Archbishop Feltin to task for his decision. Wrote Greene...
There were many besides Communists who thought that Baylot's strong-arm men were a little too zealous on occasion. Cardinal Feltin, Archbishop of Paris, protested that some of his worker-priests, arrested in a demonstration, received "treatment unworthy of human beings." (To which Baylot retorted: "I don't care if they're ambassadors, priests, pastors, rabbis, or candy salesmen. If they take part in an illegal demonstration, they will suffer the consequences.") Last April Baylot's cops, on his own responsibility, seized 213,000 copies of the Communist L'Humanité, because...