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...Yugoslav JAT airliner in Belgrade one afternoon late last month was a middle-aged Italian whose dark suit, white shirt and maroon tie only faintly concealed an unmistakable clerical look. Traveling in mufti, as he has on all of his 15 or more trips to Communist-ruled lands, Monsignor Agostino Casaroli, 51, had come to Belgrade to sign the historic protocol agreement re-establishing diplomatic ties between the Vatican and Yugoslavia after a 14-year break (TIME, July...
...German Ambassador to the Vatican, Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, told Berlin that in Rome, "Bolshevism is the greatest cause of concern." Friedlander is aware that the Nazi archives are incomplete but could find only three ineffectual and half-hearted inquiries by the Vatican nuncio in Berlin, Monsignor Cesare Orsenigo, regarding Nazi persecution of the Jews...
...church crisis deepened, Spain's eager young priests could count on a valuable new ally: Monsignor Marcelo González Martín, 48, who was installed last week as coadjutor, chief troubleshooter and heir apparent of Barcelona's archbishop. Though Monsignor González is non-Catalán in a rabidly Catalán diocese, he very quickly won over his first congregation at Barcelona's Gothic Santa Eulalia Cathedral, shunning the tiresome platitudes that his audience was so accustomed to. "I promise you," Monsignor González said with feeling and warmth, "that...
Focus of the student protest in Boston was a stiff new regime imposed on St. John's by Monsignor Lawrence Riley, whom Cushing named as rector last summer. A conservative in church matters, Riley rejected a list of outside lecturers the students wanted to hear, and reinstated the all-Latin Mass. Both Riley and Cushing ignored letters, signed by 20 senior seminarians, asking for a discussion of the changes...
...Gregorian chant, three pious Venetian music lovers wrote the Vatican's weekly Osservatore Delia Domenica that he should be considered for sainthood. Alas, replied Theologian Benvenuto Matteucci, a Protestant is a Protestant, however sublime his music. "There is an esthetic and artistic religious sentiment in his musical expressions," Monsignor Matteucci sympathized, "but it is only through the true and only church of Christ that salvation and sainthood come." So Lutheran Bach must remain unbeatified except to secular ears...