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Miniature Church. It was only 18 years ago that the Rev. Edgar Schmiedeler of Washington, D.C., a Benedictine priest, transplanted the custom from Europe. Father Schmiedeler, 61, director of the Family Life Bureau for the National Catholic Welfare Conference, saw in the man & wife retreat a promising way to foster the concept of the family as a church in miniature. At Arrowhead Springs he was on hand to conduct the retreat in person. Participants spent three days together in spiritual lectures and devotional services. During the intervals, they meditated or read books selected for their attention to family problems. Sample...
...living under Fascism and Communism-have lost mine a time ago. And so did almost a half of the world's population ... As for "a monstrous perversion of morality," Bishop Sheil should have asked some of the G.I.s tortured in the Chinese P.W. camps or some of the priest refugees for advice...
...readers of The Little World of Don Camilla, which tells of a gentle Italian priest's struggles with ungentle Communists, might picture the author as an amiable, chuckly type who would never have a hard word for anybody except Reds. Actually, Author-Journalist Giovanni Guareschi, 45, is a fierce monarchist, with a fierce mustache and a fierce tongue. Guareschi edits the brilliant satirical weekly, Candido, which pillories politicians of the center as well as those of the left. Three years ago, a Candido cartoon depicted President Einaudi (some of whose income is derived from vineyards) reviewing a troop...
...court, Writer Tracy testified that, as a regular contributor to the Sunday Times, she had written about an 82-year-old parish priest in Doneraile, County Cork, Ireland. He had built a new house for himself, she said, by getting contributions from his 2,700 parishioners, who lived in tattered "cottages without water or light," earning an average of only $8 to $11 a week as farm laborers...
Honor Tracy was ready to stand behind her article, but the Sunday Times backed away from a showdown in court with the priest by writing a letter apologizing to him and paying $2,100 to a charity he designated. Writer Tracy was also infuriated when the Sunday Times printed an abject retraction in which the paper "admitted" that her article was "an unjustifiable attack on the character and posi tion" of Doneraile's Canon Maurice O'Connell. Indignant that the Sunday Times had disavowed her story without consulting her or trying to check the truth of the piece...