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...Utrecht. The letter announced that thereafter the Dominican chapel would be closed to the public and that the Dominicans would soon be moved to another district. Huissen's worried citizens wondered what to do. The town council had an idea: it sent a unanimous resolution to the papal nuncio in The Hague, asking him to put the town's reaction before the Pope. Then someone-no one remembers who-recalled an old Dutch tradition: once the people break into a closed church, it has to stay open. That was all the action committee needed...
...notable week for the O'Haras, the Pope also named Archbishop Gerald P. O'Hara, 56 (no kin), bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, to be papal nuncio to Ireland. Archbishop O'Hara has been a nuncio before, in Rumania, from which he was expelled by the Communists...
...Episcopalian and a 33rd degree Mason, he became a firm friend of Pope Pius XII. Clark will not be a mere Minister, as was his predecessor, Rufus King. His title will be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary,* and his appointment will probably be followed by the naming of a Papal Nuncio...
...main organizational office in China, had been closed down. Communist papers were scolding Archbishop Riberi as "a resident of Monaco" (he was born in Monte Carlo) who had "interfered in the affairs of the Chinese government." The "people" were "demanding" his expulsion. It might not be long before Nuncio Riberi was escorted to the border, to join the swelling crowd of missionary priests and nuns being exiled by way of Hong Kong. Most notable recent exile was Bishop Gaetano Mignani, vicar apostolic of Kian in Kiangsi, deported for allowing the publication of two pamphlets exposing the government drive...
...Catholic Church's 19th Century policy of limiting most native Philippine priests to posts as parish assistants. There had been agitation against the abuses of the Spanish friars since 1860, but it was not until 1902, after a delegation to Madrid got a cold shoulder from the Papal Nuncio, that a group of Socialist-minded Philippine Catholics decided that the Pope was no longer their spiritual "father, but just a stepfather." A revolutionary, excommunicated priest named Gregorio Aglipay was proclaimed Supreme Bishop. Almost overnight, membership in the new church jumped to nearly...