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Died. Luigi Cardinal Lavitrano, 76, prefect of the Vatican's Sacred Congregation of the Affairs of Religious,* onetime (1929-45) Archbishop of Palermo (Sicily) ; in Marino, Italy...
Last week Luigi Cardinal Lavitrano, Archbishop of Palermo (Sicily), issued a pastoral letter. Chiding was His Eminence's tone. He cited statistics showing that "66% of the Italians do not hear Mass on religious holidays, and only 12% of Italian men receive Holy Communion on Easter...
...Cardinal Lavitrano's pastoral gave point to a gentle scolding which Pope Pius XII delivered, on the same day, to all the parish priests of Rome-whose bishop he is. Speaking of "our times, in which religious ignorance is profound and full of peril," the Holy Father told his priests to bestir themselves, pay less attention to administrative duties, more to preaching. Said he: "Preach with simplicity, aiming at that practical sense which comes to the mind and guides the spirit. It is not scintillating and learned fluency that conquers souls, especially today, but rather the word of conviction...
...rich Contractor Patrick McGovern and onetime supreme Court Justice Daniel Florence Cohalan. President Mary C. Duffy of the Catholic Daughters of America sailed last week. From Australia went Premier Edmond John Hogan of Victoria. Among the visiting Cardinals: Lorenzo Lauri, Papal Legate, Paris' Verdier. Palermo's Lavitrano, Belgium's van Roey, Poland's Hloud, Westminster's Bourne. Shipping lines got up special tours, arranged for masses to be held on board. In Dublin Bay many a liner will serve as a hotel for Congress visitors, among them the Italian Satnrnia, which sailed from New York...
Four other Cardinals were named by Pope Pius XI last week to fill some of the 13 vacancies in the Sacred College: Mgr. Emanuel Gonzales Cerejeira, to be Patriarch of Lisbon; Mgr. Luigi Lavitrano, to be Archbishop of Palermo; Mgr. Carlo Minoretti, to be Archbishop of Genoa; Mgr. Joseph MacCrory to be Primate of Ireland...