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...though heartbreakingly poor, in Louvain, Belgium ... He has perhaps the unique distinction of being the last known living Latin bishop of a Russian diocese. He survived the brutalities and terrors of more than twelve years in Russian concentration camps. Following the occupation of the Baltic states by the Wehrmacht, Msgr. Sloskans was handed over to the Germans by the Russians in exchange for Russian nationals whom the Germans held prisoner. Like many of his compatriots, Bishop Sloskans fled the Russians as they moved westward in the last years of the war, and eventually wound up in Belgium...
...Britain's 50 million inhabitants, about 3½ million are Roman Catholics. The leaders of that church in Britain have traditionally included many men notable in the arts, public life, or scholarship-of whom Msgr. Ronald Knox, wit, popular author, preacher and Biblical scholar, is a brilliant example...
...enemy and the police captain, as a result of this, set the stage. Monseigner Hickey, (Msgr. Hickey presides at St. Paul's Church opposite St. Benedict's. An eminent leader in the Boston clergy, he has no connection with St. Benedict's.) our pastor, abetted them. He turned on the porch lights of the church, and waited behind the front doors...
...Msgr. Ronald Knox in Stimuli (Sheed & Ward, $2.25), published this week...
Commented the Times: "We agree with Msgr. Sheen's statement that 'there is great goodness in the world,' but the record seems to refute his assertion that it is 'unsung and unheralded...