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...Catholic chaplain of the Massachusetts house of representatives and chapel administrator at Boston's South Station, Monsignor Christopher P. Griffin prayed in the house last week for a bill granting a subsidy to the New Haven Railroad's Old Colony commuter line. Prayed he: "Heavenly Father, you know what is in my heart-so teach me the prayer today. How, 0 Lord, wouldst thou pray if thine own temple were now on the Old Colony line?" Turning to the legislators, he continued: "I pray for you, now it is your turn to pray over...
...bred in Baltimore. She joined the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Baltimore while still in her teens, stayed on to teach. Romance languages, eventually became dean of Notre Dame of Maryland college. Her present project began in 1955, when she met a bouncy, bustling Irish priest named Monsignor John Patrick Carroll-Abbing, a man with a well-known mission-"Boys' Towns" for Italy. During fund-raising drives for his boys, one question bothered him: What about the girls? When he met Mother Mary, who by then had joined the faculty of Washington's Catholic University of America...
...Monsignor Egon Turcsanyi, 65-year-old secretary to Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, and 15 priests between the ages of 20 and 28. Turcsanyi, so ill he could not attend some of the sessions, was accused of plotting a fascist "counterrevolution" against the Red regime and stealing documents from the State Office for Church Affairs. According to the regime six of the priests "repented" their "crime": distributing leaflets and a message from Pope Pius XII, which stated "the people of Hungary live in misery...
Until a couple of years ago, says former President John J. Cavanaugh of Notre Dame University, U.S. Catholics sincerely believed that their schools, colleges and universities were generally as good as almost any in the land. Then Monsignor John Tracy Ellis, professor of church history at Catholic University of America, delivered his now famous lecture on "American Catholics and the Intellectual Life." Last week, taking off from Ellis' lecture. Father Cavanaugh sounded the alarm again. For 30 years, he said, evidence has been accumulating that "the intellectual prestige of American Catholics seems to be lower than the intellectual prestige...
...clock one morning last week a jostling crowd-tourists, sailors and townspeople, elbow to elbow with priests and nuns-had swarmed into the 13th century Cathedral of San Gennaro in Naples. Promptly on the hour, a mustached monsignor walked slowly to a side altar, carrying a glass-windowed silver reliquary containing two glass vials partly filled with a dark, solid, opaque substance. As the priest turned the reliquary around and around before the golden-faced bust of St. Januarius, Naples' patron saint, onlookers prayed: "Come and grant us your favor, 0 beautiful saint, great champion of Jesus Christ...