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...Hates Yankees? Father Illich was sent to Puerto Rico five years ago, where he became vice rector of Catholic University and a monsignor. He lost the favor of Puerto Rico's Bishop James McManus when he spoke out against the bishop's order forbidding Catholics to vote for Governor Luis Muňoz Marin (TIME, Oct. 31. 1960). Yanked home by New York's Cardinal Spellman and assigned to Fordham University. Msgr. Illich wangled money and Fordham's sponsorship for a project that he had been hatching for years: to train a corps...
...Heaven exists." says the monsignor, placing his fingertips together. "That is all we know for sure. Some "theologians hold that heaven is everywhere, as God is. Most, however, deem it more appropriate that it should be a special place with definite limits-a glorious abode in which the blessed have their home. The church has decided nothing about its locality...
Washington's Monsignor Frederick...
...worried about the fate of the bill, the Kennedy forces tried cautiously to find some middle course. At the House hearing, New Jersey Democrat Frank Thompson, a Catholic in favor of Kennedy's stand, tried to take some of the heat off pro-Kennedy fellow Catholics by asking Monsignor Hochwalt how he thought Catholic Congressmen should vote on a bill that lacked parochial school loan amendments. The answer: "They must vote according to their consciences. They will have a moral judgment to make as to what would be of greater national value." At his weekly press conference, the President...
...favorites, and always called it "my college." From the beginning, the problems of training older, mature men were far different from the problems of instructing young seminarians. "With such men, training is not merely a matter of good will," says St. Bede's present rector, Monsignor Charles L. H. Duchemin...