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...Catholic representative was present, explained Msgr. Thomas McCarthy of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, and there could be no official Catholic altar because canon law forbids joint worship...
...Pretended miracles" and "presumed visions" have been getting far too much attention lately, warned Msgr. Alfredo Ottaviani of the Holy Office, in the Vatican's official L'Osservatore Romano...
...Roman Catholics, the success of the Holy Year was a bright beam of light in a dark, uneasy world. Msgr. Sergio Pignedoli, director of the Holy Year Central Committee, summed it up: "This year's great discovery is that in a world apparently skeptical and indifferent, there's a vigorous current of faith...
...other occupations of Msgr. Ronald Arbuthnott Knox during the past 30 years have earned him an international reputation as the urbane and witty chaplain-litterateur at Oxford's Trinity College, as the author of both brittle whodunits (The Body in the Silo) and brilliant essays in Roman Catholic theology, and as perhaps the ablest modern translator of the Bible. His new book, three decades in the making ("mastering my authorities in trains, or over solitary meals, taking notes on rough pieces of paper and losing them . . .") is titled Enthusiasm (Oxford; $6). In it, Author Knox brings...
...Devout Sex. Far from being an "enthusiast" himself, Msgr. Knox is sometimes unable to suppress a faint shudder at the uncouth excesses with which his subject compels him to deal. But for the most part he treats his material with the warm antiquarian relish of a jurist whose hobby is delving into the idiosyncrasies of safecrackers...