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These words, spoken from a platform in Cleveland's Statler Hotel last week, came not from a member of the Democratic National Committee or the head of a labor union but from a Roman Catholic priest-balding, bushy-browed Monsignor John A. Ryan of Washington. Now 73 years old but vigorous as he was 20 years ago, Monsignor Ryan has long been U.S. Catholicism's most potent social reformer. His devotion to the Roosevelt administration led Father Charles E. Coughlin to dub him "the Rt. Rev. New Dealer." Six years ago his militant support of the President...
...Deibent of the Chaplain School Faculty. An address will be delivered by Brig. Gen. Thomas E. Trolane, commandant of the M. P. battalion of the First Service Command. Chaplain (Col.) Cleary will then present the diplomas and the program will be concluded with a benediction by the Right Reverend Monsignor Albert F. Hickey, of St. Paul's Church in Cambridge...
Meanwhile many a U.S. churchman also keeps an anxious eye on Washington. Five times in the last year the District of Columbia, holding that "religious institutions enjoy no inherent exemption from taxation," has returned church property to the tax rolls. Last week Monsignor Michael J. Ready, general secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference (voice of the Roman Catholic hierarchy), put ecclesiastical fears into words: "What the District of Columbia' now provides in its tax laws will be precedent-setting all over the country...
Occasion for Monsignor Ready's remarks was a Senate committee hearing on a bill introduced by Nevada's Pat McCarran to exempt about half the Washington religious property recently returned to the tax rolls. The McCarran bill would exempt only schools and churches, leaving other educational and religious institutions a target for taxes...
American Catholics seemingly back up the State Department stand. Monsignor Michael J. Ready, general secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, the ringing voice of the U.S. hierarchy, declared last week that "the liberty and institutions" of the U.S. are today threatened by the same "rampant totalitarian military forces which harass the Church and all that the Church has built." This description obviously applied to Japan. Significantly, Monsignor Ready made his remarks at a service attended by the Apostolic Delegate to the U.S., Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicoganani, who will undoubtedly pass them on to the Vatican as a good indication...