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Spellman's influence, however, goes well beyond his diocese. As the Pope's Military Vicar in charge of the nation's 920 Catholic chaplains, he is bishop of the Catholics in the armed forces. He also bears a major responsibility for the church's largest charity, Catholic Relief Services, a $176 million foreign aid program that sends food and clothing to 79 countries around the world, from Moslem Algeria to Catholic Peru. In grudging tribute to his financial power and financial skill, Rome sometimes calls him "Cardinal Moneybags...
...question of conscience that The Deputy raises is bound to survive the play and to condition any future judgment of Pius XII: Is it morally defensible for the Vicar of Christ on earth to remain silent in the face of such monstrous evil? And must not every man of good will or religious conscience bear witness to what he believes before and sometimes against the world? But Hochhuth does not stick to this lofty issue. As a German, he lives guiltily with guilt, the knowledge that the Nazi leaders and the people who brought them to power must bear...
...Hochhuth has portrayed him, Pius is all discretion and no valor, and as Emlyn Williams plays him, he is gently dignified but bloodless, Christ's bookkeeper rather than his vicar. While Hochhuth robs Pius of all stature, even he cannot deprive him of sound sense. The Pope reminds Father Riccardo of the mounting Communist danger from the East, thus proving at least as prophetic as Winston Churchill at Fulton, Mo. Pius keeps silent, he tells Father Riccardo, to prevent worse misfortunes -and Hochhuth is scarcely in a position to argue that Hitler was not capable of further madness...
...clergy. In the Anglo-Catholic Church Times, the Venerable Guy Mayfield, Archdeacon of Hastings, summed up the report as "sometimes unhappy and amateurish and sometimes superfluous." Roman Catholics and Methodist ministers spoke up in envy of the freedom of speech that went with the "virtual irremovability" of the Anglican vicar. But nearly everyone agreed that something had to be done about the outdated freehold system, and, in the Laborite Daily Herald, the Rev. Nick Stacey of Woolwich, crying "Reform or die," called for a "revolution at the vicarage...
Perhaps Orthodoxy's greatest complaint against Rome is the existence of the so-called Uniat churches-some 12 million Catholics who accept the Pope as the Vicar of Christ but observe Eastern forms of worship. Orthodox church leaders unanimously regard these Eastern Catholics as spiritual fifth-columnists, seeking to subvert their people from the true and ancient faith...