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Then the phone began to ring. Cries of "dictatorship," questions about enforcement, shrieks of fiscal pain descended upon the pastor's head. Soon the vicar general of the Newark archdiocese, Msgr. James A. Hughes, came to the rescue...
Father Weigand's plan had been misinterpreted, he said; there was no way of enforcing the giving of a tithe, no declaration of income would be required, no punishment would be exacted of those who failed to comply. Said Msgr. Hughes: "I don't like this business of charging that we're totalitarian." Father Weigand contributed to the ambiguous blur by announcing that if tithing was "not optional," it was not compulsory, either. Anyway, the "carnival atmosphere" will be ended at St. Joseph's for 1961, at least. A single exception: the Saturday night bingo games...
...Human Good. Murray gave his polemical proclivities a workout in the early '50s with a scholarly drumfire of debate in the pages of the monthly American Ecclesiastical Review with its editor, Redemptorist Father Francis J. Connell, and Msgr. Joseph Clifford Fenton, professor of dogma at the Catholic University of America. The subject at issue: Murray's contention that the Vatican should give its formal blessing to the U.S. pluralist system as a new, permanent and viable kind of relationship between religion and government. The learned, footnote-stippled discussion ended when Murray was advised by his order that henceforth...
...call and less than a first step in rapprochement. Last August the ecumenical-minded Pope permitted a Catholic observer to attend the meeting of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches in St. Andrews, Scotland, and it is said to have been through him, Dutch, round-faced Msgr. J.G.M. Willebrands, that the meeting between the Pope and the Archbishop was arranged. Last month Roman Catholic Archbishop John C. Heenan of Liverpool, a member of the forthcoming Ecumenical Council's Secretariat for Christian Unity, reported that Pope John had recently expressed "great affection for the Anglicans...
Leaving no doubt as to where Bishop McManus stood, his chancellor at Ponce. Msgr. Victor M. Nazario, added that anyone who supported Muñoz Popular Democratic Party "not only commits a mortal sin but can also be excommunicated." Taking its cue, Puerto Rico's new Catholic Action Party, openly sponsored by Davis and McManus, took full-page daily ads in the newspapers to remind voters that "Catholics cannot vote for the Popular Party." Spot radio commercials proclaimed that "the Masons, the Protestants and the Communists obey Luis Muñoz Marin. Catholics obey their bishops...