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Last month Bishop Gallagher sailed from Manhattan on the Rex, for Rome, Vatican City and Castel Gandolfo to make the visit "to the threshold" of Mother Church required of all bishops every three to ten years. With him was his friend and close colleague, Bishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland. Ship newshawks discovered these big-city Bishops, immediately asked Detroit's what he thought of Father Coughlin's calling President Roosevelt a liar (TIME, July 27). Bishop Gallagher, whose countenance, as that of the Archangel Michael, adorns the political priest's Charity Crucifixion Tower near Detroit, replied...
...days later, while in the U. S. Father Coughlin was offering a weaseling apology to President Roosevelt, U. S. newshawks in Rome began to hear what sounded to them like "high prelates close to the Vatican," talking anonymously like unseen antiphonal voices in a church choir...
Arriving at Rome, Bishop Gallagher told newshawks: "I have no complaint against Father Coughlin. . . . The head of all priests in the diocese of Detroit is myself. It must therefore be for myself to make observations about Father Coughlin, not the Vatican...
Bishop Gallagher, in Vatican City: "Rome holds me responsible for Father Coughlin's activities. I explained to Monsignor Pizzardo [political adviser to the Pope and Secretary of the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs] and we agreed, that the misunderstanding arises from the fact that many are not acquainted with canon law. Actually, Monsignor Pizzardo thinks the uproar regarding Father Coughlin represents a good joke, sponsored solely for political purposes...
Enrico Fermi was born in Rome 34 years ago, studied at the University of Pisa, has taught and researched at the University of Rome since 1927. Short, wiry, dapper, cheerful, he is married, has a 5-year-old daughter, likes to ski, play tennis. Some years ago he perceived that when a nuclear impact knocks a neutron and a positron out of an electron, there is a mysterious disappearance of energy. He surmised that the excess energy rode away on a little particle which, now generally accepted as theoretically necessary, still eludes observation. It is because of Fermi that this...