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...discussion of the problems. Once in Rome, Elko was forbidden to communicate with his parishioners; his traditional pastoral letter for Easter Sunday was suppressed. This month, in a statement that in effect probated the bishop's spiritual estate, Rome announced that Elko's vicar-general, Msgr. Edward Rosack, had been appointed administrator of the diocese; Elko remains bishop in title, with no ecclesiastical powers...
...Msgr. Escrivá, he insists that Opus Dei "never becomes involved in any temporal affair." It is thus not surprising that he attributes the obvious success and power of the organization and its members to divine direction. Opus Dei was founded, he says, "without any human means. It was born small, but it grew little by little, like a living organism, as everything develops in history." The organism he rules is nonetheless an extraordinary one. A measure of its power is that no bishop, archbishop or cardinal-let alone a mere politician-has any power over it. Msgr. Escriv...
...their own conscience en lightened by God's law authentically interpreted." Dr. Rock interpreted it his way: "Oh, perfect! Parental responsibility and the supremacy of conscience-that's an excellent way to satisfy the Old Guard as well as the young." The Old Guard was unmoved. Said Msgr. William F. McManus, director of the Family Life Bureau in the Archdiocese of New York: "I see in the encyclical no substantial change in what the Vatican has said for some time in the matter of family control...
...marriage vows is not the issue; even Roman Catholic authorities hold that an illicit hetero sexual affair has a degree of "authentication," while a homosexual relationship involves only "negation." Roman Catholic thought generally agrees that homosexuality is of and in itself wrong because, as New York's Msgr. Thomas McGovern says, it is "inordinate, having no direction toward a proper aim." Even in purely nonreligious terms, homosexuality represents a misuse of the sexual faculty and, in the words of one Catholic educator, of "human construction." It is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality, a pitiable flight from...
...sleep there?but his wife phoned every 15 minutes throughout the night. Thousands curled up in church pews?and at St. Patrick's Cathedral discovered to their dismay that there are no rest rooms. "We've been sending people over to the New Weston Hotel for 80 years," said Msgr. Thomas McGovern...