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...show had been organized for Rome's Holy Year by Monsignor Celso Costantini, Vatican Secretary for the Propagation of the Faith, and himself for twelve years an apostolic delegate in China. Under his direction, the Church's missionaries had collected what they could from churches in their own mission districts, commissioned some works, and accepted a great many more from native artists who had heard of the project and wished to be represented. The Vatican hopes to keep the show together after Holy Year ends, exhibit it next year in Paris and Manhattan...
...Monsignor Costantini, all that seems right and proper. European artists, too, had often represented the saints as being of their own race, place and period. The Buddhist goddess Kuan Yin, he explains, had many of the same virtues that Christians revere in the Madonna: purity, motherhood and the understanding of sorrows. He also approved of Hindu representations of Christ that looked like the god Siva, "because Siva is a highly spirtualized deity. But we do object to Christ being represented in the guise of Buddha, since Buddha is worshiped...
...Little Hitch. A thunderous applause greeted the bishop. To show that there was no prejudice, tall, dark Monsignor Alibio Ruina announced that the Communist mayor of Bolsena, the little town nearby where the miracle had occurred, would be invited to the procession. The church, which had won the day, could afford to be generous...
...personal disagreements and political divisions. But they happen so rarely that, when a disagreement does become public, it makes news-somewhat the way a quarrel in a well-ordered family interests the neighbors. Among the more intriguing Catholic family disputes in recent times is the case of Monsignor Franz Jachym, who in the midst of his solemn consecration as Archbishop Coadjutor of Vienna (TIME, May 1) declared he felt himself unworthy of that office and hurried from the altar...
...teaching rosters of these symposia include such names as Max Lerner, Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, Representative Christian A. Herter '15, (R-Mass.), The Honorable Charles H. Malik, Minister to the United States from Lebanon, and poet Stephen Spender...