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BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY NO. 6 ("THE PASTORAL") (RCA Victor). A sumptuous offering by Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony, encased in a fat album full of prints of famous landscape paintings and snatches from famous poems-all in celebration of nature.
Jesuit Leiber admits that Pius "found it difficult" to speak out clearly against the murders, but adds, "This was providential. Otherwise, I fear greater harm would have been the result." Catholics point out that after the Dutch bishops issued a joint pastoral letter attacking the deportation of Jews, the Nazis...
The best evidence of Pius' own judgment is his 1943 letter to Berlin's Bishop Konrad von Preysing: "We leave it to the pastoral leaders on the spot to weigh whether and to what degree the danger of retaliation and pressure in case of remonstration by bishops make...
More than Sermons. Perhaps the most outspoken advocate of social change and reform among Latin American prelates is Raul Cardinal Silva Henriquez, 55, Archbishop of Santiago and primate of Chile. A square-jawed intellectual, Cardinal Silva Henriquez collects pottery and rare books, tries to discourage visitors from kneeling to kiss...
In many refreshing ways, the land has remained true to its leaders' vision of a pastoral "Holy Ireland." The Irish spend only one-fifth as much yearly ($8,000,000) for defense as New Yorkers pay each year for garbage collection. They do not support a single superhighway, nightclub...