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...last week excommunicated and avoided. To any such high threat of absolute wrath, the Church adds a sober, realistic rider. Last week Archbishop Diaz pardoned in advance Government employes who keep their jobs because they cannot find other work, parents who send their children to proscribed schools because the truant officer forces them to. The Church wants loyal Catholics but even more it wants live Catholics...
...from Detroit's public schoolrooms. One day ten black pupils would be reported missing and the next it would be 20. Meantime reports grew that a Negro cult school called the University of Islam was making corresponding gains. Alarmed teachers complained to the city attorney. Detroit's truant officers called at the University of Islam, housed on the second floor of an old brick theatre building, ten blocks east of the city's downtown business district, and had the door shut in their faces. They went back with police, but the school's instructors were clam...
Last week truant officers & police bore down on the school in earnest, seized textbooks, carted John Mohammed, 24-year-old leader of the cult, Tadar Ali, Allar Cushmeer and ten other instructors off to jail. This time they found only two pupils, but some 400 were on the school rolls...
...Eternal Father who hast begirt us round with loving care, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, and has committed to us rules of reason as holy messengers of Thine: Forgive our foolish ways, capture our truant thoughts, direct our wandering wills, as once again with contrite hearts we fling ourselves as penitents in utter self-abasement upon the world's great altar stairs of prayer that slope through darkness up to Thee. . . . Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen." With this prayer by Chaplain ZeBarney Phillips the U. S. Senate began its deliberations one noon last week...
...serious in believing that any medicine can be found which will restore a noticeable degree of health to the near corpse. He does go so far as to make a proposal that certain articles be hewed out of the Covenant in order to tempt back into the fold the truant nations, even perhaps, hoping that the United States and Soviet Russia as well will take a snap at the balt. But these diplomatic gestures can only be gestures. Mussolini is perfectly well aware that the Covenant can only be altered by a unanimous decision, and that France and all whom...