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Catholic University is also the only U.S. university whose rector must be approved by the Pope. Last May, Pope Pius XII confirmed the Rt. Rev. Msgr: Patrick J. McCormick, 67, for his second five-year term. The tall, austere priest has taught at C.U. for 37 years...
Sharpest observations on contemporary convert-making come, as might be expected, from the most famed proselytizer of all, Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen. Modern converts, he writes, unlike those of past generations, have nothing to be converted from ("It is no longer Protestantism from which we convert souls; it is confusionism...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward Joseph Flanagan, 61, bluntspoken, kindly director of Boys Town, Neb.; in Berlin, Germany, where he had gone to advise the U.S. Army on youth problems. Irish-born Father Flanagan founded Boys Town in 1921 as a nonsectarian home for delinquents and orphans (his creed: "There is no such thing...
Tall, rubicund Msgr. Gustavo Testa gained credit at Rome for his quiet oiling of troubled Franco-German waters in the Ruhr after World War I. In 1935 he became Apostolic Delegate to Egypt and Arabia. Testa is the first man to bear his new title: Apostolic Delegate to Palestine...
Catholic Hour (Sun. 6 p.m., NBC). Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen discussing The Root of All Our Anxieties...