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...notion that a shepherd of souls should wear a workman's coveralls first got important attention one evening in 1943, when Paris' Emmanuel Cardinal Suhard, who died in 1949, picked up a book written by two of his abbes and sat up the entire night reading it. Authors Henri Godin and Yvan Daniel contended that the French working class, to a large extent seduced by Marxist ideology, regarded the church as reactionary and the Christian faith as irrelevant. The authors argued that priests should go to work in factories and live among workers' families while preaching...
John's Ban. Suhard started the experiment in 1944, and at its peak in 1953 the movement numbered more than 100 priests. But from Rome's point of view, it went sour. Twenty priests left the church to get married. Others were taking part in strikes and Communist demonstrations-for example, protesting the arrival of General Matthew B. Ridgway as chief of NATO...
...which he futilely urged Pius to issue an encyclical on the duty of Roman Catholics to resist the unjust orders of an authoritarian state; Jews were not to be specifically mentioned. Six months after the meeting, Tisserant wrote a letter to the Archbishop of Paris, then Emmanuel Cardinal Suhard, repeating his suggestion. He did not criticize the Pope, Tisserant insisted last week, giving copies of the letter to the press. His target was the Roman Curia, which, Tisserant charged, had a tacit agreement with Hitler: the Curia would remain silent in exchange for making Rome an open city. "That...
...that a pastor was virtually helpless in reaching those who did not come to church. He proposed that the church set up a mission to work among Frenchmen with the same dedicated zeal that sends missionaries to spend their lives in hardship in heathen lands. Paris' late Cardinal Suhard and the French archbishops set up the Mission de France in 1941; the Mission de Paris was founded...
...Gaulle continued his slow walk up the aisle toward Cardinal Suhard and Monsignor Beaussart, who never faltered either. A Te Deum was playing from the organ where the machine pistolers were hidden...