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...polite about it. Gone is the defiance that Pius XII used to hurl at the Kremlin; instead Rome makes such amicable gestures as inviting Russian Orthodox observers to the Vatican Council. Last week the Pope produced in Rome a living gain from his policy of easing tensions: Ukrainian Archbishop Josyf Slipyi of Lvov, freed after 18 years of Soviet confinement...
...spiritual leader of the Ukraine's 2,000,000 Byzantine-rite Catholics, tall, bearded Archbishop Slipyi, 71. is a Jesuit-trained theologian who was elevated to the episcopacy in 1939. Slipyi (pronounced slee-pay) protested a postwar Russian attempt to force Byzantine-rite Ukrainians into the Russian Orthodox Church, and in 1946 was imprisoned, charged with "political crimes during the German occupation." Confined to a tiny cell with four Catholic priests, he said Mass in secret, using dried crusts of bread for hosts and wine made by letting grapes and raisins ferment in a glass. In 1953 his hard...
Throughout his long and lustrous career, Composer Igor Stravinsky, 80, has consistently refused the degrees and formal honors that accompany fame. But since 1959, at the invitation of New Mexico's affable Roman Catholic Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne, Stravinsky (himself devoutly Russian Orthodox) has traveled to Santa Fe to conduct such works as his magnificent Symphony of Psalms in the city's St. Francis' Cathedral. Now Byrne urged him to accept from Pope John
Died. John Cardinal D'Alton, So, Archbishop of Armagh and Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland, a noted ancient historian (Horace and His Age), and spiritual father to 3,284,331 Irishmen, who long worked quietly for political union between the Irish Republic and the six British counties of Northern Ireland, was instrumental in ending the I.R.A.-inspired bloodshed between his countrymen on the divided island; of a heart attack; in Dublin...
Died. William Cardinal Godfrey, 73, Archbishop of Westminster and leader since 1958 of the 5,000,000 Roman Catholics in England and Wales, a Liverpool trucker's son known for his vigorously sharp attacks on what he considered Britain's declining morality and a bitter foe of those "disciples of despair'' who advocate artificial birth control; of a heart attack; in London...