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...Word of this heresy reached 84-year-old Cardinal Saliège, Archbishop of Toulouse. The cardinal decided to give Father Dubois time to reconsider, but Dubois held to his views, and wrote a 75-page treatise attacking priestly celibacy. One Sunday last fall, Abbé Dubois mounted the pulpit of his church. His hands trembled as he read a letter from the cardinal announcing his own excommunication, depriving him of "passive and active administration of the sacraments." After the service, friendly peasants surrounded grim-faced Father Dubois...
John P. Dillenberger, associate professor of Theology, praised the change last night for "removing an obstacle in the path of women who want to enter the pulpit...
With the election in doubt, Father O'Connor called on his friend Msgr. T. J. Jordan, dean of ten Rock Island-East Moline Roman Catholic churches for support. On Sunday before the election, the parish priests read an announcement of Msgr. Jordan from the pulpit: "The issue is simple-the choice of C.I.O.-U.A.W., a good American union, or Communist-dominated U.E.-F.E. Good Catholics, who know the evils of atheistic Communism, should vote . . . C.I.O.-U.A.W." Across the Mississippi in Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, another seven priests joined the campaign. After the sermons, two U.E.-F.E. shop stewards bolted...
...most serious blow of all was the law of a fortnight ago making divorce legal for the first time in Argentina's history. Last week the Argentine episcopate issued a letter deploring the divorce law, ordered it read from every Roman Catholic pulpit in the country. A newly formed underground association distributed pamphlets urging Catholics to display their loyalty to the faith by wearing badges of Roman Catholic organizations and bowing to priests "proudly and ostentatiously." In Buenos Aires and Córdoba, gangs of Roman Catholic youths beat up several bogus priests-apparently government agents in clerical garb...
...could, and play as boisterously as was possible on a Presbyterian Sunday in the 1880s. But one of them had his own kind of Sunday game. Over a set of kitchen steps he would drape one of his mother's shawls. Then he would mount his make-believe pulpit and preach...