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...criticism for excessive prudence. Some Catholic laymen deplore the fact that his voice, loud and clear in condemning The Deputy, dirty movies and the Communist threat, is rarely heard on such social issues as segregation and political corruption. Catholic book publishers seldom try to get Spellman's imprimatur on anything more controversial than the life of an Irish saint, and there is an undercurrent of complaint from young priests about the steady-as-you-go conservatism of chancery decrees. Says one Manhattan curate: "It's easier to preach about socialism in New York than to advocate liturgical reform...
...Johns Hopkins.* Jesuit Corbishley argues that Britain's still incomplete New English Bible could easily be modified for Catholic use; other Catholic scholars favor the Revised Standard Version, which is used in many Catholic seminaries. Last spring Roman Catholic Bishop Peter Bartholome of St. Cloud, Minn., gave his imprimatur to a booklet of Holy Week devotions in which Scriptural quotations were taken from the R.S.V...
...Cardinal Cushing flatly denied Rock's contention. He said in The Pilot, the newspaper of the Boston archdiocese, that several of the book's statements were "theologically incorrect and certainly misleading," and criticized Rock for falling to obtain an imprimatur, a statement by his local bishop that the book was free from doctrinal or moral error...
...held overwhelming control of the Congress-against 35 Republicans in the Senate (one vacancy), 263 to 174 in the House. The result so far during the 1962 session of Congress: of some 50 bills, both major and of lesser importance, sent to the Hill with the Administration's imprimatur, only one of any real substance has passed. That was a $435 million program to retrain unemployed workers for new jobs-and it was so modified by Republican-sponsored amendments that the G.O.P. could reasonably call the measure its own. As for the rest of the New Frontier legislative program...
Father Lombardi's book, which received the approval of his Jesuit superior and an imprimatur from a local auxiliary bishop, has not been ordered withdrawn from print. But Vatican officials agreed that only placement on the Index could have been a sterner rebuke. Murmuring that his book was only the opinion of a "simple priest," Father Lombardi affirmed his loyalty to the church and retired to silence. Said one Vatican cleric: "Only the Pope is God's microphone...