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Meanwhile, Washington's Monsignor Michael J. Ready had declared that the priest's trip was "a political burlesque.'' (Father Orlemanski, aggrieved at such "vulgar words," declared it was "not a burlesque but high-class opera.") Nor was Monsignor Ready impressed by Stalin's signature: "What we need from Stalin is his declaration of full religious freedom in Russia, not his signature...
...made by Producer Walter Wanger at the request of U.S. Assistant Surgeon General R. A. Vonderlehr, for free distribution. Both the U.S. Public Health Service and OWI approved it. Then, at the behest of Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, the Legion of Decency's Executive Secretary, the Very Reverend Monsignor John J. McClafferty, wrote OWI's Elmer Davis...
Orthodox Russian and U.S. Communists, good atheists all, were shocked last week to hear Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen coolly announce that he prayed every morning for Russia's Joseph Stalin. Monsignor Sheen is professor of philosophy at Washington's Catholic University of America and an archfoe of Bolshevism. Speaking to some 2,500 members of Brooklyn's Catholic Teachers Association, the Monsignor said: "We can hate Communism without hating Communists." He added: "Every morning after Low Mass I pray for Joe Stalin and for Russia, as does every Catholic priest in the world...
Izvestia's bid brought swift, hot retorts from many a U.S. Catholic, cold disapproval from many a non-Catholic. Sharpest comeback was from Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen: "As Soviet Russia has already served notice that America and Great Britain may not interfere in the question of Poland, so now it serves notice on religion that it may not interfere in the question of Europe. From now on we may expect . . . a separate peace...
Less hotheaded Catholics hoped that Monsignor Sheen had not helped the Kremlin drive a wedge...