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From his puritanized city the monk denounced Alexander VI as a usurper. Alexander at first tried to bribe him with a cardinal's hat. Savonarola replied: "No [red] hat will I have but that of a martyr reddened with my own blood." After he defied a papal excommunication, his political enemies, assisted by the Pope's political friends, stormed San Marco, had him tortured and executed...
...fight to get better wages fc Filipino workers, Jesuit Father Walter I Hogan, Manila's "labor priest," has mad himself some formidable enemies (TIMI March 12, 1951). But he has had the COE consistent support of Papal Nuncio Egidi Vagnozzi, a brisk, 46-year-old Italia whose plain speaking long ago got him th nickname of "II Americano" in Vatica circles. Since his arrival 2½-years ago Archbishop Vagnozzi has given heavy be hind-the-scenes support to the efforts of Roman Catholics like Philadelphian He gan to give Filipinos a fresh deal before the Communists...
...authority" on union labor and the "criminality and autocratic rule of American unions." His anonymous authority was so impressed with what he had to say that "he said it would be beneficial if I would write for the Holy Father a statement of the truth in care of the Papal Secretary of State...
...Agonizing School. LaFarge had other interests besides interracial justice. He is a recognized authority on the Papal encyclicals. Since 1920, when he found Communists among some Slovak immigrant parishioners, he has written and lectured about the dangers of Communist ideology. He has been a leader of the Liturgical Arts Society, an organization founded to raise the low level of religious art in the U.S. A brilliant linguist, he knows a dozen languages* besides Greek, Latin and Hebrew ("Those are normal...
Last week five cardinals met in Rome, as a papal tribunal, to investigate the knights, and perhaps shear them of some of their anachronistic powers...