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They are almost entirely Roman Catholic but not quite the kind U.S. Catholics understand. Accustomed to receiving the sacraments only when a priest visits the village, sometimes baptizing their children themselves and often marrying without benefit of clergy,* Puerto Ricans have scandalized many a priest with their casual church ways. But gradually the church has found its way among the burgeoning Puerto Rican flock. The zesty mixture of fun and devotions last week in Manhattan and Chicago was testimony to the church's success...
...Roman Catholic Church recognizes a non-church marriage between Catholics as valid under conditions in which a priest could not be reached in less than a month...
Consternation spread through the village, and soon afterward the news was all over Italy. Quivering with rage, Italy's chief Communist organ L'Unita reprinted the village priest's proclamation under the sneering three-column headline, CHRIST UNDER ARREST, and accused Don Camillo of making Jesus his "private property" and of treating "Corpus Christi like a batch of spaghetti payable in return for the Christian Democrats' vote." Against these fulminations, Don Camillo found himself supported and praised by the Vatican's newspaper Osservatore Romano. Don Camillo, it said, correctly "deemed it improper that solemn homage...
...much ambition who needs little convincing that he can run things better than the bishop. The bishop, the seduction speech runs, is so conservative that he will end by bringing the Communists clamping down on the church, and then how about the souls unshriven, the infants unbaptized? Thus, "bishops, priests and faithful are placed continually before a crisis of conscience. The bishops in particular find themselves faced with the gravest decision: if they refuse to acknowledge the appointment of the candidate [the frustrated canon] he will be nominated without the bishops' consent. This will cause confusion in the diocese...
...hair for him, while he dreams of himself as Messire Bernardus Riccio, a Machiavellian figure. The landlady's brother, James Patrick Madden, is back from New York and thought to be rich; although a vulgar sort, Madden is Judith's last hope for a husband. The parish priest is a hard, harsh, unimaginative zealot called Father Quigley. Like all such spinsters, Miss Hearne has rich and happy friends-Professor Owen O'Neill and his family, but these, too, fail her because she comes to understand that her Sunday visits are permitted by charity, not offered from love...