Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Insulting Attitude. Father Mazzi's troubles began last September, when a group of left-wing Catholic laymen in nearby Parma briefly occupied the city's cathedral to protest what they called "episcopal authoritarianism." Mazzi, along with three other priests and 150 Florentine laymen, sent the rebels a letter...
Last month Mazzi compounded his defiance by privately publishing a children's catechism that he had been using for religious instruction in Isolotto. The catechism stressed the working-class origins of Jesus. Cardinal Florit forbade other Florence priests to use the catechism and complained that it portrayed Christ only...
Threat to Unity. When Mazzi refused, the cardinal unceremoniously fired him, on the ground that his presence in Isolotto was a threat to " ecclesiastical unity." Shortly thereafter more than 1,500 of Mazzi's parishioners trekked through pouring rain for a protest demonstration outside the cathedral, where the cardinal...
Last week the cardinal explained that he had removed Mazzi not as punishment but for "a period of reflection" -possibly hinting at a more conciliatory position. As for Don Mazzi, he insisted that if he is not reinstated, he will seek a job in Isolotto as an electrician's...
Harding floated into the Ohio senate, then the U.S. Senate, borne on waves of alliteration: "Progress is not proclamation nor palaver," he orated when delivering the nominating speech for Taft in 1912. "It is not pretence nor play on prejudice." He based his own progress on one cardinal rule: Don...