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With regard to items from Mrs. Pat Cronin's letter that you printed in your July 21st issue: St. Philip Neri School is situated quite near to us, and we know parents who send their children there and have not mentioned complaints such as Mrs. Cronin brings...
...send their children to parochial schools whenever possible, Roman Catholic parents are not always happy about them. Last week the Jesuit weekly America printed a long letter from Mrs. James R. Cronin, 31, wife of a roofing contractor and onetime Chicago reporter, who has four children in St. Philip Neri School on Chicago's South Side. Not all of Pat Cronin's grievances were major, but many would probably be recognized by other Catholic mothers. Items...
...after another, a series of sad-voiced peasant women, somber in mourning black, told of the disappearance of their sons or husbands, all of whom had known Gorreri-and too much about the Gold of Dongo. Among them was the 63-year-old mother of Luigi Canali, alias "Neri," an idealistic Communist who was murdered a week or so after he signed the original partisan inventory of the treasure. "I remember," said she, "when my son told me, 'Mama, those thieves are ruining everything. I have seen such things!' ' When her son disappeared, Mama Canali looked...
Then, struggling to control her voice, Mama Canali introduced a bigger name into the trial, that of the pudgy, would-be respectable leader of Italian Communism himself. Said she: "When Palmiro Togliatti came to Como, I saw him in the Piazza del Popolo. 'I am Neri's mother,' I said to him. 'My son worked hard for the party. What became of him?' 'Be calm,' answered Togliatti. 'Your son will be rehabilitated...
...Philip Neri was a saint after Italy's heart. When his canonization was announced at the same time as that of Ignatius Loyola, Francis Xavier, Isidore the Farmer, and Teresa of Avila, the Spanish-hating gagsters of Rome wisecracked that the Pope had just canonized "four Spaniards and a saint...