Word: pizzardo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking for the Holy Office, Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo agreed that the church must try to recapture the French workers' allegiance (although he noted stiffly that men who received the "sacred and indelible mark of baptism" could not be considered totally "de-Christianized"). But, continued Pizzardo, "it is above all through words that the priest must testify, and not by manual labor accomplished among workers as if he were one of them . . . Work in factories or shops is incompatible with a priest's life and aims." Even if a worker-priest could find time to say Mass and perform...
Also released, a letter from Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo, Secretary of the Holy Office: "[It is astonishing] to see Catholics and even priests seek certain moral and even social objectives, however praiseworthy, in the bosom of a movement which possesses neither the patrimony of doctrine or of spiritual life...
Last week the worker-priest seminary at Limoges announced that its reopening was indefinitely postponed. Simultaneously, the official paper of the diocese of Chartres published a letter sent in July to all archbishops and bishops of France by Cardinal Pizzardo, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities in Rome. The worker-priest experiment, wrote Pizzardo, has "had a negative influence in the formation of young priests and, because of this, any further attempts of this kind are to be discouraged ... As a consequence, this Sacred Congregation absolutely forbids all seminary students in France to engage in any kind...