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After the election last June, the 35-year-old priest felt more like a benighted missionary than ever. Though there was virtually no unemployment and the wine industry was flourishing, Gaggio di Piano gave the Christian Democrats only 161 votes against 1,020 for the Communist Party. Don Giuseppe decided that what he needed was a working-class appeal. He began buttonholing members of his infidel flock and telling them: "The essence of Christianity is work-material as well as spiritual. Why, Christ himself was a worker for 30 of his 33 years." Somewhat to his surprise...
...cardinal gathered his sopping robes around him and made a dash for the rectory. But Don Giuseppe had his reward. Through the streaming rain and into the church for Mass, then out again into the drenched square, came almost 800 men. women and children-the biggest congregation the priest had ever seen in Gaggio di Piano...
Drying out afterward in the rectory, the cardinal took the village priest aside. "My son." he said, "you have hit the right road...
Donlan went home for the weekend, but went up to Worcester on Sunday, according to his mother. He talked to priest there, and enrolled in class Monday. He has already moved into a dormitory...
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...