Word: retreats
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...figures, Topel soon proved himself a conservative administrator who delegated authority well and led the diocese into such forward-looking social projects as homes for unwed mothers and housing for the elderly. A notable achievement, the one he is most proud of, was the establishment of the Immaculate Heart Retreat House and a new kind of religious retreat involving private work with a spiritual director and, for the priests and lay Catholics who go there, a 30-day period of almost total silence and prayer. Says Topel: "Sometimes that brings remarkable changes in people's lives...
Bishop Topel has always turned his salary back to the diocese. But ten years ago, after Vatican II emphasized the need for the Catholic Church to bear witness to poverty and downplay priestly perquisites, trappings and titles generally, Bishop Topel during a prayer retreat "suddenly got the conviction that God wanted me to move into a smaller house. I wanted to live like the poor, and that's the way it's been ever since." He even manages to turn over to the needy some money from his Social Security check...
...midweek John Paul spent the afternoon visiting his papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo, 15 miles south of Rome. The village crowds, accustomed to a more distant papal style, roared with approval as he stood up to wave from the back of his open black Mercedes. On the balcony of the bedroom in which Pope Paul VI died last August, John Paul told the crowd with a smile: "Our first meeting has been very warm, very noisy, and I hope very religious...
...During the council he made eight speeches, the most memorable in favor of religious liberty. Church honors followed: a Cardinal's red hat in 1967, election as one of three Europeans on the council of the world bishops' synod in 1974, an invitation to conduct the Lenten retreat for Pope Paul VI's household...
Last week the businessmen sold the statue to Bud Scott, a basketball coach at a local college, who thinks that it will be. just the thing to attract people to his 110-acre campground, recreation area and Christian retreat. None of which would have bothered Lincoln, who once remarked during a campaign that "if the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined...