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...Pope's anniversary was marked by other ecclesiastical notes as well. One was an extraordinary offer attributed to the Pope by a Vatican ecumenical adviser, the Rev. Antonio Javierre. Pope Paul, said Javierre in an interview with the Salesian News Agency, would be willing to move out of both his Vatican Palace and St. Peter's Basilica "if it were the price to be paid to achieve [Christian] unity." According to the priest, the Pontiff made the remark in a recent private conversation in response to Javierre's own questioning. The Pope reportedly added that he could...
...turreted Gothic mansion at Henley-on-Thames used to be a Salesian Sisters' convent. Now the 35-acre estate will ring not to hymns but to a different sound of music. Beatle George Harrison and Wife Pattie have traded in their ranch-style Surrey bungalow and bought the 30-room domain...
Today Genevieve Caulfield's matronly figure is a famous one in Bangkok. Her school, built on land that the government gave her in 1949, has six buildings and a special Braille printing press from the Foreign Operations Administration. Taught by a staff of Roman Catholic Salesian sisters and Thai volunteers, her 189 pupils come from all over the land-the children of high government officials and poor shopkeepers, of rich merchants, pedicab drivers and coolies. Eventually, she hopes to build a new $50,000 building, a vocational training center in Bangkok, and an elementary school in northern Chiangmai...
DOMENICO SAVIO (1842-57) told his pastor, at the age of five, that he was big enough to serve Mass. When he was twelve, the frail Italian schoolboy became one of the first pupils of St. John Bosco, founder of the Salesian Soiety and educational pioneer. Domenico died three years later, after "living a full life in 15 years...
...loved you as my children. Now the church takes me away from you. I am no longer father to you. I am a priest in search of a diocese, and I am one of the unhappiest men on the face of the earth." Last week the first of the Salesian fathers arrived in Nomadelphia. Don Zeno packed his accordion and went off to rest and wait for a new assignment...