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...Chaste Marriage. Roman Catholics are expressly forbidden to use contraceptives. But does the ban also apply to the "Catholic form of birth control" known as the Rhythm . Method?* Last week Servite Missionary Father Hugh Calkins, known to millions of U.S. Catholics for his columns in the weekly pamphlet Novena Notes, warned Catho-lies to be wary of it. In the current issue of Integrity Father Calkins goes to work on the "beauty-shop theologians and gabfest experts" who contend that Rhythm has the church's blessing...
...Artful filth" was what the Pilot, official weekly of Boston's Roman Catholic archdiocese, called Bob Hope's sexy gags last month. Last week Chicago's Novena Notes joined in, announcing that in a poll of 10,000 of its readers (25% of them servicemen) they had voted Comic Hope the radio and film star who "most consistently violates" Christian principles. Runners-up: Milton Berle, Eddie Cantor. Least disapproved: Fibber McGee and Molly, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen...
Hope's prime offense, according to Novena Notes' editor, Father Terence Aloysius Seery: "His remarks about girls -when he mentions what they have on, and that sort of thing...
Fortnight ago Father Hugh Calkins, a leader of Chicago's perpetual novena of Our Sorrowful Mother, himself a dispenser of a popular medal of the same name, thought it time to say a few words on the subject. In his midget monthly, Novena Notes, he declared...
Since Father Keane's novena began, Novenites have addressed some 4,000,000 petitions, on slips of paper, to Our Lady of Sorrows. No statistics exist on the ratio between prayers and fulfillments, but in Father Keane's church alone, 80,000 letters are on file from Catholics whose prayers have been answered. An analysis of 800,000 petitions showed them to be predominantly personal, begging jobs, boy friends, good health, etc. Only 8,000 of the faithful asked nothing for themselves, petitioning good health for the Pope, etc., or, in one case, a cure for Dizzy Dean...