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...these who don't read the splash headlines, Budenz is the former leading Communist journalist converted to Catholicism and a Fordham professorship by Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen in October of 1945. Hearst's editorial pages with their belligerent captial letters have recently featured his "inside story," and he is presently touring U. S. religious gatherings to reveal "What Every American should Know About Communism." Last night St. Patrick's Youth Center sponsored his appearance at the Cambridge High and Latin School Auditorium...
...Objected Dr. Rolla E. Dyer, director of the National Institute of Health (in Cissie Patterson's Washington Times-Herald): "There is less & less reason every year for fear of old age. ... It is silly to talk about 'hopeless' [diseases] in these times." Cried Monsignor Robert E. McCormick, presiding judge of the ecclesiastical tribunal in New York's Catholic Archdiocese: "Anti-God, unAmerican, and a menace to veterans...
...Monsignor Enrico Pucci of the Vatican had a great fondness for food, drink and cards. His apartment in the heart of Rome was furnished more like a garconniere than the chaste retiring place of a church dignitary. And he liked money. In the '305 he made as much as $1,000 a month as tipster to foreign correspondents...
...York Times, among others, had hired the monsignor as Vatican legman. He turned in such a sloppy, inaccurate report of an important Papal speech that the Times's Rome bureau chief Milton Bracket had to repudiate the story next day. Eventually Bracker fired him, as did almost every U.S. news service. Pucci had handed the A.P. and other agencies a story that the then Msgr. Francis Spellman was planning a trip to the Middle East to review the troops; it turned out that he had read "Middle West" in a French newspaper and got the story wrong...
Last week students of the phenomenon were given a valuable specimen of the Monsignor's art: a record album (Angelus Recording, $6.75) containing eight of his best speeches. Protestants who felt they could safely risk exposure to Sheen's preachments could satisfy their curiosity. Catholics could admire the voice of their Church's best-known pulpit and radio orator. The records were issued by Sheen's longtime admirer, Edward Dukoff, who is pressagent for Comedian Danny Kaye. Dukoff, a tall, nervous Jew, has so far not entered the Church...