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...Charles Francis Potter, humanist. After a singular career of not being able to make up his own mind, he wishes to win people to his latest way of thinking . . . Surely Mr. Potter must know from his study of the Bible that even St. Peter, whom God chose as His vicar...
...appointed vicar of Saône (pop. 700), near the Swiss border. The church was tumbledown, the few parishioners indifferent. Father Simon decided that the trouble with the parish was that the villagers were unhappy. "The more happiness there is in the souls of men, the more love there is for God in their hearts," said Father Simon. He made friends with the Communist mayor and the Communist schoolteacher. He organized games and singing lessons for the children. He arranged with manufacturers in nearby Besançon for piecework to keep his housewives occupied and increase their income...
Even before St. Paul wrote these words in his letter to the Corinthians, Christians were debating whether or not the dedicated man of God should marry. Last fortnight in Wolverhampton, England, the Rev. Wilfrid Ellis, 60, Anglican bachelor vicar of St. George's Church, took a contemporary look at the matter in his parish magazine...
...affairs of the Chinese government." The "people" were "demanding" his expulsion. It might not be long before Nuncio Riberi was escorted to the border, to join the swelling crowd of missionary priests and nuns being exiled by way of Hong Kong. Most notable recent exile was Bishop Gaetano Mignani, vicar apostolic of Kian in Kiangsi, deported for allowing the publication of two pamphlets exposing the government drive...
Last week Rome's official Jesuit fortnightly, Civiltà Cattolica, printed a significant article to explain how mistaken this idea was. "There are many sincere believers, Catholics full of idealism, who look with disquietude and almost a secret anguish on the diplomatic activity of the vicar of Jesus Christ. They would prefer . . . that the Church should never appear to be conniving with this or that policy or with any particular regime." Such notions, the article went on, grew out of ignorance of what Vatican diplomacy really is, or how much the spiritual good of Catholics can be benefited...