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...telling a Reformation Day gathering that "the Roman Catholic Church is not at home in America. It wants to make this country predominantly a Roman Catholic country. [It] can and will win America unless Protestants heal their divisions and get together." Retorted the Very Rev. Andrew C. Smith, Jesuit president of Alabama's Spring Hill College: "If there ever was a time when all Christians ought to stand together, regardless of recognized differences, this seems to be the hour...
...rehabilitation program which proved so successful that he began a nationwide crusade. Father Garcia fired off a circular to government ministers, church leaders and Roman Catholic intellectuals, denouncing legalized prostitution as "the major shame of the nation." The appeal brought only one response, but an important one: in Madrid, Jesuit Father José Maria Llanos, spiritual counselor of the Falange Youth Front, reprinted Father Garcia's circular in the Falangist daily Arriba, followed it up with a stinging column accusing Spain's upper classes of favoring prostitution as a means of protecting their own virtue. "The best people...
...Probably so named because the Jesuit Order once owned land at a nearby bend in the Mississippi River...
According to Spanish Jesuit Father Louis R. Bolumburn, also deported last week on his 22nd anniversary in China, the Communists have launched a new drive against the Roman Catholic Church. Arrested three weeks ago with three of his Chinese priests, Father Bolumburn heard that at least 23 Chinese priests and some 300 leading Catholic laymen had been jailed in the Shanghai area alone in a single week as counterrevolutionaries. Catholic congregations in Shanghai, he said, have attended church as faithfully as ever, "not because there is religious freedom in Communist China, but because the Catholics are courageous...
...best-known Roman Catholic priest in Germany today is Father Johannes Leppich, 40, whom the Communists denounce as the "Black Goebbels," and conservative Catholics call the "Red Father." Leppich moves tirelessly across the country, preaching and demanding help for the poor. To spread his gospel, Jesuit Leppich has used posters, picture slides, and last week he was busy with a new evangelical idea: "confession" by telephone...