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Lent, the great Christian penitential season, began this week all over the world. In Europe, it will scarcely be noticeable: large parts of the Continent have been fasting, wearing sackcloth, and living amid ashes for several years. Even in one of Europe's best-fed countries, Cardinal Bernard Griffin last fortnight told his London archdiocese: "We are free to eat whatever we can obtain...
...Ceteris Partibus. In London Archbishop Bernard Griffin, youngest cardinal designate (46), retrieved the flowing cappa magna of the late Cardinal Kinsley from the Gainsborough Film Studios (to whom they had been lent for a Paganini movie), had it altered to fit, set out for Rome...
...Pope neglect the traditionally Protestant part of Europe. Britain's stocky, genial Bernard Griffin, 46, was the youngest cardinal appointed; Archbishop Johannes de Jong of Utrecht was the first Dutch diocesan to receive the red hat since the Reformation...
Last week a group of Illinois churchmen, led by conservative Roman Catholic Bishop James A. Griffin of Springfield, vehemently agreed. Said Bishop Griffin: "We want to know what we're paying for. . . . Thousands of [Dr. Stoddard's] future students believe in the objective validity of [original sin and hell]. . . . He will evidently try to dispossess his charges of their feeble-mindedness." Said the Bishop: the new president should make a profession of faith. Replied Dr. Stoddard, who will not take office until next July: "We need more religion rather than more theologies. . . . Frankly, I should be much happier...
Said Bishop Griffin's supporters darkly: "The fight has just begun...