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More vivid and more accurate than Soviet Delegate Georgy Pushkin's description of the Russian troika [June 16] is that of Dostoevsky's character Ippolit Kirillovitch in The Brothers Karamazov, Book XII, Chapter...
...June 1 VIII M, W, F at 3 Tues., June 6 IX M, W, F at 4 Tues., June 6 X T, Th, S at 8 Sat., May 27 XI T, Th, S at 9 Sat., June 3 XII T, Th, S at 10 Mon., June 5 XIII T, Th, S at 11 Fri., May 26 XIV T, Th, S at 12 Th., June 1 XV T, Th, S at 1 Sat., May 27 XVI T, Th, S at 2 Sat., May 27 XVII T, Th, S at 3 Th., May 25 XVIII...
...vocations to the priesthood on the rise in vocations to the so-called secular institutes-religious organizations such as Opus Dei, in which men and women may take vows of obedience (but rarely poverty or chastity) and go on living in the world. Since the late Pope Pius XII recognized their validity in 1947. secular institutes have mushroomed in Italy: from 1949 to 1958, more than 250 applied to the Vatican for formal recognition. "There is no doubt.'' said a Vatican prelate last week, "that these organizations have attracted many men and women who might otherwise have become...
After the death of Pius XII, a rush order came from the Vatican to make three papal soutanes, one for a large man, one medium, one small. When the cardinals were locked in conclave to elect a new Pope, the outfits were locked up with them. "It is difficult to cut without anyone specific in mind," says Gammarelli. A shrewd papal handicapper, he felt that in case of a deadlock the compromise candidate might be an old customer of his, Venice's Cardinal Roncalli, and cut the garments for the large man with him in mind. Bonaventura...
When he was appointed Archbishop of St. Louis in 1946, to succeed John Cardinal Glennon (who died on his way back to the U.S. after being made a cardinal by Pope Pius XII), St. Louisans found Indiana-born Archbishop Ritter a far different kind of man from the warm and outgoing Archbishop Glennon. Slender almost to frailty, with rimless glasses and a gentle voice. Ritter seemed unapproachable and colorless at first, but it was not long before St. Louis' 450,000 Roman Catholics knew how much more he was than an office manager...