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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...
...many ex-G.I.s have been joining the Trappists that the Abbey at Valley Falls is overcrowded. The order has bought an 800-acre valley ranch in northern New Mexico, announced the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Clarence Schoeppner, chancellor of the archdiocese of Santa Fe. Two Trappists would take formal possession this week...
...From Trieste this week the Associated Press reported that a Yugoslav priest, Father Miro Bulesich, was beheaded when he tried to ward off a knife-brandishing mob that attacked and seriously wounded Msgr. Giacomo Ukmar, a Vatican prelate, after a ceremony at a church in Lanische, Venezia Giulia. Meanwhile, authorities found the mutilated body of a third Roman Catholic priest, bearing the "marks of horrible torture...