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...There is great goodness in the world," Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen told an Associated Press interviewer, "but it is unsung and unheralded. To get into the papers these days, all you have to do is break one of the Ten Commandments...
Like many another churchman, Msgr. Sheen was convinced that the press gives a false picture of U.S. life by overplaying crime, lust and violence, "prints mainly the bad, seldom the good." Said he: "Take a pencil and go through the papers. On virtually every article you can put a number . . . [to] represent a broken Commandment, the breaking of which has made news...
Outside the battle lines, bystanders asked each other what all the shooting was really about. A strong hint came from Italy. There, Msgr. Albino Galletto, head of the Catholic Cinematographic Center, suggested that in the largely non-Catholic U.S. such a movie might lead non-Catholics to scoff at the church's teaching...
...Especially (though Msgr. Galletto did not mention this possibility) so soon after the Assumption of the Virgin Mary became a dogma...
Among many current examples of the popular passion, Msgr. Ottaviani cited last summer's alleged apparitions of the Virgin to Mrs. Mary Anna Van Hoof at Necedah...