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...Catholic Radical Alliance founders and leaders are Rev. Charles Owen Rice of St. Agnes Church in Pittsburgh, Rev. Carl P. Hensler of St. Lawrence Church and Monsignor G. (for George) Barry O'Toole, 50, strapping, hearty Benedictine builder of Catholic University in Peiping, until last fortnight head of the philosophy department at Pittsburgh's Duquesne University. Monsignor O'Toole and the two younger priests patterned their Alliance after a group in Manhattan led by Dorothy Day, onetime Socialist, and Peter Maurin, onetime French hobo, whose radical Catholic Worker competes with the Daily Worker in Union Square. Radical...
...picket line, hoisted signs declaring "The Catholic Radical Alliance supports the Heinz strikers." Horrified, the pickets begged the priests to cover the word "Radical" on their signs. Night before an election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board, the three priests appeared at a mass meeting of Heinz workers, Monsignor O'Toole telling his predominantly Catholic audience that "modern finance-capitalism" is as Godless as Communism. The Pickle Workers' Union (A. F. of L. affiliate) won the election hands down...
...brought into the Pope's apartment, placed upon a candlelit table. Vested in rose garments, Pius XI prayed over the Rose, incensed it, poured balsam and musk into a tiny cup in its centre. The Golden Rose will be presented to Italy's Queen after Easter by Monsignor Borgongini Duca, Papal Nuncio to Italy...
...Fordham University, Father Svensson's arrival last week was eventful. The erect, twinkling-eyed Icelander turned out to be wearing the fedora hat of the late great priest-chancellor of Austria, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, with whom Father Svensson lived in Vienna and at whose death the Jesuit was present. Fordham's Jesuits made a quick deal with their colleague, bought him a new hat and acquired Monsignor Seipel's for the University museum...
Sorry to see Monsignor Buddy go to San Diego, which he has never before visited, will be a number of youngsters in St. Joseph's Cathedral School with whom he plays handball, baseball, basketball, marbles. Those sports Charles Buddy, son of a wholesale fruit merchant, learned in St. Joseph streets. His baseball improved when he was sent, like many another bright youth with a vocation and the backing of his bishop, to the North American College in Rome in 1909. Ordained in the St. John Lateran Basilica in 1914, he returned to St. Joseph, rose quickly in the shadow...