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...Roman Catholic Church, embarrassed by a shortage of priests that leaves only one for every 5,250 people, has only recently taken serious steps to combat the movement. "Our people have faith," says Archbishop Helder Câmara of Rio. "They are instinctively religious, but they need help and spiritual guidance which they cannot always get. All the Masses celebrated on a Sunday in Rio can provide for a maximum of only 355,000 people -out of a population...
...losers in the spreading war are Cuba's people. In Oriente the civil war moved the Roman Catholic Church to issue its own sad communique last week. Said Santiago Archbishop Enrique Pérez Serantes: "We have entered a new and horrible phase-hunger produced by war. Christian hearts cannot be unmoved by the plight of nearly all our towns and villages, filling with victims of hunger and caught in the path of death...
...Americans there. Four priests served in this treaty-made capacity, all of them Assumptionist fathers, a missionary group with a special concern for the churches of the East. In 1955, when the U.S. State Department refused to extend the 60-day visa of the Moscow Patriarchate's Archbishop Boris to permit him to serve as Exarch for North and South America, the Communists retaliated by expelling Assumptionist Father Georges Bissonnette and refusing to grant a visa to his successor, the Rev. Louis F. Dion...
...deadlock was broken when the State Department announced that it had granted a 90-day visa to Archbishop Boris. And last week Father Dion, 44, a native of Worcester, Mass., where he is registrar of Assumption College, had his visa at last, planned to leave...
...Appointed Bishop William E. Cousins of Peoria, Ill. archbishop of Milwaukee to replace Archbishop Albert G. Meyer, who was transferred to Chicago (TIME. Oct. 6) to succeed the late Samuel Cardinal Stritch. Milwaukee's new archbishop, 56, a native Chicagoan, was auxiliary to Cardinal Stritch from 1949 until...