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...discussion of Catholic teachings on the subject of conscience and the individual, Monsignor Francis J. Lally. editor of the Pilot, official newspaper of the Boston archdiocese, emphasized the pre-eminence of moral law over statutory law. "There is a higher law than the law of the land. We must put moral law above the law of the land; conscience must always receive the first choice...
Rome's Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith last week announced the excommunication, three years ago, of Monsignor Li Wei-Kwang, onetime Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Nanking. His offense: "Acting by word and deed against the legitimate authority of the representative of the Supreme Pontiff in China." The excommunication was not published until now, in hopes that the erring priest might mend his ways. Instead, according to Osservatore Romano, Li has recently become "leader and proclaimer among Christians of movements that have the purpose of dividing Catholics and changing the essence of the only church...
...rather be the editor of the Register than Cardinal Archbishop of New York," says Monsignor Matthew John Wilfred Smith, 63, of Denver, Colo. Monsignor Smith is not settling for too little. As editor and boss of the Catholic Register, he is not only the No. 1 press lord of Catholicism, but he runs the biggest and most successful chain of religious newspapers in the world. His national edition and 35 diocesan editions-all of them brightly edited, eight-column weeklies-have a combined circulation...
...last week announced his resignation as head of the Catholic Youth Organization, a group which he founded 24 years ago, and which now has some 5,000,000 members. No reason was given by Sheil or by Samuel Cardinal Stritch, who announced that Shell's successor would be Monsignor Edward J. Kelly, long active in the C.Y.O. But speculation inevitably reverted to Bishop Sheil's famed blast at Senator Joseph McCarthy last April, which antagonized many Roman Catholic laymen and clergy. Most widely heard explanation: Sheil may have been urged by his superiors to be more restrained, instead...
...When after several days of balloting it became obvious that he was going to be elected Pope, he fled in consternation from his fellow cardinals. Msgr. Merry del Val, later his Secretary of State, found him in the Pauline Chapel on his knees, his head buried in his hands. "Monsignor, you can persuade them. Tell them not to vote for me," Sarto pleaded. When the commander of the Noble Guard went to take his first orders, the new Pope offered him a chair with his own hands. When the commander protested, the Pope said sadly: "It was nice to carry...