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...monk's cell, high on a hill 50 miles north of Manhattan, sat a venerable man in the brown robes of a Franciscan. After reading proofs of his recently finished autobiography, Father Paul went to bed. In the still hours of the morning, a sickness of his heart awakened him. An hour later, Death had come to the Very Rev. Paul James Francis, 77, founder and Superior General of the Society .of the Atonement...
...Lewis Thomas Wattson he was called 46 years ago, when he was a minister of the Episcopal Church. Within the framework of that church he founded, 40 years ago, his order which followed the Franciscan rule and dress, and aimed to send out missionaries to the heathen. In 1909 he took the Society of the Atonement (17 members) and its affiliated Sis ters of the Atonement into the Roman Church. Under his Franciscan name of Father Paul James Francis, he was ordained to the priesthood...
...France's 50,000 Catholic "regular" priests (in religious orders), 8,000 were mobilized last week. Leading in numbers were Jesuits, Christian Brothers and the peaceable Franciscans. Typical fighting fathers: Franciscan Aviation Captain Boigerolles; Pere Godefroy of the White Fathers, second lieutenant in the Senegalese sharpshooters; Jesuit Father Carre, in the tank corps...
...Custody still stands. Last week the 151st Franciscan Custos (custodian), arrived in Washington, D.C. for a visit. A merry, bespectacled, red-bearded Italian, Most Rev. Albert Gori, the Custos (also called "His Paternity") put up at the Franciscan monastery of Mt. St. Sepulchre. There he was visited by many a priest, including well-waisted Rector Joseph M. Corrigan of nearby Catholic University. Object of His Paternity's trip to the U.S.: to thank U.S. givers, to rally more givers to the Holy Land shrines. The Washington monastery, called the Commissariat and College of the Holy Land for the U.S.A...
...Wisconsin, where he will become a Franciscan monk, went painfully popular Father Simon Borkowski. Since last September Father Simon has been "imprisoned" in his Vulcan, Mich. Roman Catholic rectory (TIME, Sept. 5) by picketing parishioners who objected to his bishop's transferring him to another diocese...