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...Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, noted Roman Catholic radio preacher, took to bed for a "checkup and rest." The place: Boston's New England Baptist Hospital...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Monsignor Joseph Nicholas Grieff, 86, founder of the American Passion Play; in Union City, N.J. Produced annually under his direction, the play ran afoul of the Sunday blue laws in 1923 when a police court recorder fined him a dollar for violating the vice and morality act by giving a theatrical performance on a Sunday. The recorder later reversed himself...
...wrote in 1931 it was Communism; in 1941 it is Naziism-and the Catholic Church seems well aware that some ism or other will always tempt working people away from the creed of Christ the Carpenter unless Christianity has a better message for them. Said the late famed British Monsignor William Francis Barry...
...problems, operated twelve schools to train the Catholic clergy in labor, social, economic and church doctrine, promoted labor schools which teach ethics and economics to workers rounded up by cooperating parish priests, developed parish study clubs on a nationwide basis, held two national social-action congresses. Its director is Monsignor John Augustine Ryan, 72, who for more than a generation has led the struggle to put the encyclicals into practice...
What the N.C.W.C.'s Social Action Department does in the cities, the National Catholic Rural Life Conference does for country Catholics. "The cure for Communism is to give a man a cow," says its executive secretary, Monsignor Luigi Ligutti. He told the Kansas City conferees about his group's efforts to increase people's ownership of productive property through homestead projects, farmers' cooperatives and small, decentralized industries...