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...everything that is contained about her in the Gospel and I reject all that is apocryphal," he told his parishioners. "I believe more in the efficacy of the example of her faith than in the legends of the Middle Ages." 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...
...with you," they promised. "We have never had a priest as wonderful as you." A delegation from the villages went to Cardinal Saliège. Dubois pledged himself to preach the dogma he had already denied, because he said he found "nothing opposed" to it in the Bible. Cardinal Saliège did not change his mind. Henri Dubois took off his cassock, donned slacks and blue corduroy coat, and joined the French Reformed Protestant Church in Toulouse...
Some of Dubois' most devoted supporters still pleaded for him with Cardinal Saliège. Last week came word from the cardinal's office. "It's a sad case," said the Rev. Marius Garail, canon of the Toulouse archbishopric. "The boy is to be pitied, for I am afraid he will suffer very much. The ecclesiastical authorities were very lenient and waited as long as they could, but there was no other possible action for them to take...
...recent gathering of the clergy of Toulouse, peppery, 83-year-old Cardinal Saliège pointed a blunt finger at a group of young priests sitting in the back of the room. "Nous vous avons à l'oeil, mes gaillards [We're keeping an eye on you, my lads]!" he warned them...
...Toulouse, France, Jules Cardinal Saliège's Lenten letter to his flock began: "You have often heard it said, or have read, that Christian civilization must be saved. I say it cannot be saved, for it does not exist. We must create a Christian civilization...