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...Writes Richard Kugelman, a Passionist priest: " 'The Jews' are for [John] not the Jewish people but cliques, groups that are inimical to Jesus . . . The Christian who associates his Jewish neighbors with those who plotted Christ's death is perpetuating an injustice never contemplated by the apostle. If a man reads John's account of the Passion without the spirit of the gospel, he may well be tempted to point his finger and exclaim: 'Those Jews!' But if he reads it with the spirit of the gospel, he will strike his breast...
Even among Roman Catholics, who normally begin regular confession at about the age of seven, there is often misapprehension about what kind of sins should be confessed. In a new book, Pardon & Peace (Sheed & Ward; $2.50), Father Alfred Wilson, a British Passionist, deals lucidly with this problem...
...Mountain. Dr. Zinn got the idea from Father Roger Aull, 61-year-old retired Passionist priest who lives in the mountains near Silver City. Father Aull once had an abscessed lung which got well after chlorine treatments. Father Aull had studied medicine before entering the priesthood; he bought a machine that would make safe, weak chlorine gas from salt water, and gave the treatments to others. In spite of clerical and medical criticism, he has been doing it for some ten years. Most doctors regard a chlorine treatment as hocuspocus: no one has explained how it can possibly act against...
...retreat house consisting of a dormitory and refectory for visiting retreatants. There from one to three days the lay communicant usually meditates, prays, confesses, is sermonized. The retreatant contributes what he likes (average: $10). In the West, 1,200 laymen throughout the year retreat at the monastery of the Passionist Fathers at Sierra Madre near Los Angeles, while others attend El Retiro, San Inigo, a retreat conducted by Jesuits near San Francisco. A place favored by Manhattan businessmen and politicians is Mount Manresa on Staten Island. In Chicago such good Catholics as Judge John Patrick McGoorty, President Dennis Francis Kelly...
Veronica's Veil, performed at St. Joseph's Auditorium, was written by Father Bernardine, Passionist. It tells how Christ paused on His way to Calvary, dried His face on Veronica's veil, left His features impressed on it.* Veronica took the veil to Rome, heading a band of Christians. Veronica's Veil is performed by two alternating casts of 150 amateur players, many of whom have played various parts from the beginning. One of the Veronicas, plump Louise Monaco, parish secretary, started out 19 years ago as a child actress. A salesman named Leonard Mathews...