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...sign of this veer toward conservatism: on the Rome press panel set up by the U.S. hierarchy, which offered daily guidance on the council to bishops and priests as well as journalists, three of the most liberal interpreters-German Moral Theologian Bernard Haring, Labor Expert Monsignor George Higgins and Paulist Father John Sheerin of the Catholic World-have been replaced by less renewal-minded...
...take vehement objection to your implicit characterization of the Paulist fathers [Feb. 3] as an "American Missionary Group" employing "American techniques." Many prominent Catholics find their tactlessness and indiscretions revolting. Their real aim is to make every free nation a vassal state of the Vatican...
That organization turned out to be the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle in the State of New York, better known as the Paulist Fathers. Last week, at their mother church in Manhattan the Paulists celebrated their hundredth anniversary with a Solemn Pontifical Mass for Religious, attended by almost 1,000 nuns, representing most of the Catholic sisterhoods in the New York area...
...Paulists started the first Catholic radio station in the U.S., WLWL. They pioneered, among religious groups, the use of paid newspaper ads and car cards to attract converts, developed a nationwide mail-order lending library. Two Paulist trailer chapels operate throughout the South during the summer. Today the Paulists number 221 priests and about 150 students preparing for the priesthood. There are 27 Paulist houses, 24 of them...
...Jesuits, no mean missionaries themselves, have a healthy respect for the Paulists. The Jesuit weekly America once editorialized: "Many features of our Catholic missionary life in the United States at the present day were first popularized, if not actually invented, by the Paulist Fathers . . . These features were considered novel and rather radical when first proposed, [but] once tried out, they were found so practical that everyone took them for granted, and few remembered any more where they originated...