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Roman Catholics venerate the Virgin Mary as the mother of Christ and the Queen of Heaven, second only to the Trinity. But her husband, Joseph, who apparently died before Christ began his ministry, is a forgotten man, fleetingly celebrated as a good carpenter and notably understanding husband. Though the Gospel of Matthew accords Joseph rather than Mary the honor of hearing the Annunciation from the angel of the Lord, St. Joseph is not even named in the liturgy of the Mass, which so honors 27 other saints. Last week a widespread campaign was under way to remedy this omission; sent...
...companies should be expected to assume the burden of such adjustments for the good of the economy as a whole." Indeed, Ball insisted, the U.S. has little choice but to move toward freer trade. "We have been the evangelists of the virtues of free competition. We have preached this gospel incessantly to our European friends." Should the U.S. surrender to protectionism, "we would set off a chain reaction of retaliation and counter-retaliation that would do irreparable harm to the whole Free World, but would hurt us most...
...Jesuit Wilkin's solution, unbaptized babies get into heaven, but not until the end of the world. On the last day, when Christian dogma holds that Christ will come again to judge the living and the dead, the Gospel specifies that there will be a general resurrection of all who have died since the world's beginning-including those in hell...
...Paul had lived today." said Pope John XXIII last week to 250 newsmen from Rome's Foreign Press Association, "he would probably have been a journalist. St. Peter was a good talker, but no one was as good as St. Paul. It was he who caused the Gospel to be preached to the ends of the earth. Can we doubt that he would have done it by means of the press, had he lived in the 20th century...
...concessions to secularism and mass appeal, C.D. has not lost track of its religious foundations. "Our primary purpose," said Father Bussard last week, "is not to make money, but to extend the influence of the magazine. Publishing in the Catholic Church is only an extension of preaching the Gospel...