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...Padre Pio was not officially a saint; to qualify for sainthood, one must be dead and have been responsible for at least four unchallenged miracles. But one day in 1918, the Capuchin friar looked at his hands and what he saw terrified him so that he fainted; the frightened monks who came to help crossed themselves and called a doctor. The credulous who saw the blood flowing from Padre Pio's hands, feet and side cried, "It is the stigmata!" And the monk's fame began to spread...
...from all over the world. The monastery prospered astonishingly, to the envy of other Capuchins. Padre Pio, who had been relieved of his vow of poverty in 1957 by Pope Pius XII in order to supervise the donations and administer their good works, became known as "the richest monk in the world." In fact, he declared truthfully, "the money does not belong to me; it belongs to the charities for which it was intended." But jealousy-and, by this time, scandal-began to bubble...
...damage is a new awareness among labor leaders that the situation has got out of hand. Last week moderates in the Australian Council of Trade Unions vetoed a suggestion that the 1,000,000-member Transport Workers Union call a massive transport strike, and Council President Albert E. Monk seems determined to curb as many strikes as he can. But he is just as determined to win a 35-hour work week for the council's 1,200,000 members, who now work 40 hours...
Cambodia is not necessarily going to hell just yet, but most of Southeast Asia inevitably looks to Western eyes like Never-Never Land. During U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's latest visit to South Viet Nam, a Buddhist monk appeared at the American embassy, explained that he lived in a palm tree in a nearby province and asked to show McNamara the contents of a basket he was carrying. In the basket was a cat, peacefully suckling three hungry mice and a kitten. The monk explained that his mixed bag illustrated the ideal of universal tranquillity and symbolized...
...able to discuss with my class aspects of the philosophy and temperament that have gone into producing Monk's genius in jazz...