Word: gerlier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, primate of the Lyon diocese, who was responsible for bringing the dying Herriot back into the church, issued a statement rejecting with indignation "the gratuitous and odious allegations . . . which dare to assert that I had taken advantage of the weakness of a diminished man." Herriot not only answered his questions in a firm voice, said the cardinal, but twice expressed "his desire for a religious funeral...
Song of the Dove. On the anniversary last week, Bishop Théas celebrated Mass on the steps of the old basilica, before Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, Archbishop of Lyons, 17 visiting bishops (two from the U.S.†), and a sprinkling of politicians, including Italy's former Premier Amintore Fanfani. Bishop Théas read the gradual for the day: "The flowers have appeared in our land, the time of pruning is come; the song of the dove is heard in our land. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come, my dove in the clefts of the rock...
...Cardinal Gerlier, onetime Bishop of Lourdes, walked slowly to the pulpit and looked down at the long line of wheelchairs in the front row of the congregation. "Lourdes is a land of miracles," he said, "but it is above all a place where an avalanche of grace takes place. It is a real hospital for souls...
...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...
After a visit to Pope Pius XII, Cardinals Feltin of Paris, Lieénart of Lille and Gerlier of Lyon announced a conditional reprieve for the French worker-priest program recently suspended by the Vatican (TIME, Sept. 28). Hereafter, worker-priests will be attached to parishes or traditional communities of priests, will no longer work full time at secular jobs-thus minimizing the chance that some of them, living by themselves in Red-tinted industrial areas, will be led astray by the Communism they set out to fight...