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...beginning of an experiment by the Paulist Fathers of Lubbock, to see whether potential converts who are too shy or lazy to ring the rectory doorbell could be led there by correspondence. In the American Ecclesiastical Review, Paulist Father Maurice Fitzgerald tells how the experiment developed...
...preoccupied with the threat of Communism that they may be drawing off some of their spiritual energy, says Father John C. Heenan, Superior of the Catholic Missionary Society of England. After his most recent trip to the U.S., Father Heenan reports in the current issue of the Paulist Fathers' monthly Information...
...Disney! The Superior General of the missionary Paulist Fathers, the Very Rev. James F. Cunningham, writes of the Paulist "trailer missions" which since 1939 have been touring out-of-the-way parts of the U.S. some of which have never seen a Catholic before. Last summer the Paulists operated six trailer chapels through Texas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Missouri and Utah showing movies, preaching sermons, answering questions. Motion pictures are powerful aids in dramatizing religion, and the Catholics use them widely, but there is a shortage of good up-to-date material. One priest is quoted as exclaiming wistfully: "Oh, what...
...August issue of the undenominational Christian Herald presents a question-&-answer analysis of the Catholic position. The Herald asks the questions, takes its answers verbatim from the pamphlet Freedom of Worship, published by the Paulist Fathers with the imprimatur of Cardinal Spellman. Excerpts...
...Vatican has since learned a good deal more about Americanism, chiefly through contrast with Europe's long, convulsive decline toward economic ruin and moral anarchy. In the 19th Century, writes Historian Joseph McSorley of the Paulist Fathers, "clashes between Church and State occurred in every important country except the United States of America." In the 20th Century, "a large proportion of the working classes turned their backs upon the Church...