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...Sunday morning, Nov. 10, Aquino went to the Manila Memorial Park cemetery to attend a Mass for dead family members, as she had done on the tenth day of every month since her mother died. In the course of lunch afterward with the celebrant, Monsignor Orlando Panlican, she repeated the critical, unanswered question: Could the opposition, if it put up a common candidate, beat Marcos...
...Catholic Church was busy concentrating its efforts on improving the lot of Haitians, 85% of whom are illiterate. Addressing 30,000 listeners at a Mass on March 7, Monsignor Francois Gayot, the head of the Haitian Bishops' Conference, announced a crash literacy program. Declared Gayot: "If these people could read and write, they could make everyone on earth share in the way they made this model revolution...
Readers of dozens of newspapers in the U.S. and elsewhere may have been puzzled last week at the premiere appearance of a new syndicated columnist: Pope John Paul II. Rome was not amused. A spokesman for the Vatican press office, Monsignor Giulio Nicolini, denounced the so-called column, which in fact was a hodgepodge of writings by John Paul on apartheid and other topics, as "inadmissible." No one, stated Nicolini, could claim exclusive, commercial rights to selections from John Paul's pronouncements. - The column was to be the first in a series of John Paul's statements compiled by Alfred...
Such a binge of communal gambling was certain to provoke sober afterthoughts, and did. Said Monsignor Joseph A. Dunne of New York City, president of the National Council on Compulsive Gambling: "The state approved drinking but it doesn't promote it. Yet the state is promoting, advocating and pushing risk-taking behavior like gambling." Some critics complained that in using games of chance to raise revenue, states mainly exploit poorer people, whose tight financial straits tempt them to give in to dreams of hitting it big. Said Sociologist Eric Hirsch of Columbia University: "It's the American dream...
...Rhode Island Priest P. Henry Leech is scheduled for an August trial on eight such charges, and in that same state Priest William O'Connell, who was already facing 24 charges relating to perhaps twelve or more youths, was arraigned last week on two additional counts. In San Diego, Monsignor Rudolph Galindo, former rector of the San Diego | cathedral, denied committing sexual improprieties with a Vietnamese immigrant altar boy, but in May the archdiocese agreed to a $75,000 settlement with the youngster's family. A related lawsuit brought by the boy's father is pending...