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...meeting in Washington, D.C., approved a new anti-abortion strategy, a "Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities." The plan marks a sharp shift from uncoordinated, at times strident opposition to abortion to a more reasoned and concerted attack on it. The bishops not only called for a parish-to national-level effort by Catholics but ventured into new territory. They proposed the formation of interdenominational "prolife" groups in all 435 congressional districts to fight for an amendment overturning the court's 1973 decision...
Died. John Carmel Cardinal Heenan, 70, Archbishop of Westminster and Roman Catholic Primate of England; following a heart attack; in London. Heenan spent 16 years as a parish priest in a crowded East London district before becoming Bishop of Leeds in 1951, where he continued to perform the duties of parish priest and lived among the workers. Named Archbishop of Westminster in 1963 and cardinal two years later, Heenan became leader of 4 million Roman Catholics in England and Wales...
...parents kept hoping that she would recover. As their testimony in court revealed, Mrs. Quinlan was the first to accept the inevitable, followed shortly after that by her two natural children, Mary Ellen, 19, and John, 17. But Joseph Quinlan kept talking about a miracle. His own parish priest, the Rev. Thomas Trapasso, said, "I was beginning to fear that Joe was not in touch with reality." The priest had to persuade him that Catholic theology does not require that life be preserved indefinitely by artificial and extraordinary means (see box, page 58). In early September, Quinlan testified, he gave...
...Powers parish of the '60s and '70s has become a beleaguered sanctuary, attacked on one side by the new breed from the seminary. Carrying guitars, speaking at sensitivity sessions, Powers' young priests yearn to say Mass with a beer mug or a coffee cup. They march to a canting faith that "religion (though not perhaps as we know it) is the coming thing," that "the clergy (though not perhaps as we know them) are the coming men." As if the counterculture crusaders were not cross enough for the old guard to bear, ignoramuses and half believers...
...sporadically during those years, when he was in his seventies. In 1942 he was listed as assistant librarian at a place called The Nursing Home; in 1949 he was listed as a writer, at a different address. Someone interviewed him in 1950 for a scholarly article. The Orleans Parish Bureau of Vital Statistics has no record of his death. His last listed address, a boarding house, has been renovated and a doctor lives there now, and when I called to ask about Hall the doctor said he was very busy and hung up on me. There is still a tiny...