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...until next spring. "It's no big deal here," said one priest. Other bishops will conform to the spirit of the new regulations gradually. In Washington, D.C., Archbishop Patrick O'Boyle has insisted that pastors introduce the changes with 16 weeks of explanatory sermons. Says Msgr. Robert Arthur, a Washington liturgist: "You can't just take 350,000 people and shake them and say-look, you did this today, but you're going to do that tomorrow...
...tougher form, pledging becomes tithing; some Protestant fundamentalists stress tithing so much that it almost seems a prerequisite for membership. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Don H. Hughes, a Catholic, wrote a leaflet that shows a crucified Christ with the inscription, "God's sacrifice for me!" and on the back says...
...listen. In Rome rumors of thefts, mismanagement and waste began to filter into the Vatican. In 1960, Girolamo Bortignon, Capuchin Bishop of Padua, began to complain to powerful friends in the Holy See that the activities in San Giovanni Rotondo would bear an investigation. Pope John sent an emissary, Msgr. Carlo Maccari, to the busy shrine with directions to set things in order. Maccari saw plenty that needed to be set in order. He saw the dread Spiritual Daughters squabbling over a cushion on which the padre had knelt, finally tearing it to bits. He saw other women following...
...good, innocent and quite timid boy." And from the age of 14, in 1896, until a year before his death in 1963, Angelo Giuseppe Ron-call i kept a record of his thoughts and dreams on odd pieces of paper. Lovingly edited by his long-time personal secretary, Msgr. Loris Capovilla, Pope John XXIII's diary, titled The Journal of a Soul, was published in Rome. At 15, the Pope-to-be was already praying "more than anything else, for union with the separated churches"; at 21, as a seminarian, he mused: "Even if I were to become Pope...
...Died. Msgr. Hugh O'Flaherty, 65, Irish Roman Catholic priest and Vatican civil service official who, while delivering Red Cross parcels to prisoner-of-war camps in Italy during World War II, set up an escape ring that smuggled hundreds of U.S. and British soldiers to freedom by disguising them as nuns, monks, bus drivers and garbage collectors, for which he won a chestful of Allied medals and the unofficial title 'Pimpernel of the Vatican"; of a heart attack; in Cahirciveen, Ireland...