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...Catholic alike in O'Grady's farflung diocese. In Lima, Peru, 100 young priests drafted a proposal of revolutionary social reforms, calling for the church to set the example. Surprisingly, Juan Cardinal Landázuri Ricketts moved out of his mansion and into a modest working class district. In Isolotto, outside Florence, suspended priest Don Enzo Mazzi (TIME, Dec. 27, 1968) is still holding his open-air Masses in the piazza for hundreds of worshipers...
Father Mazzi was for 14 years pastor of the church of Santa Maria Delle Grazie in the drab, working-class Florentine suburb of Isolotto. On the theory that conventional methods would have no impact on his parishioners, most of whom regularly vote Communist or Socialist, Mazzi shucked his cassock and collar for the jacket and high-necked sweater of the Italian workman...
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 as an "agitator" and would contribute to "social tension." Once again he asked Mazzi to resign...
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 was saying Mass-in Latin. Later, 40 Roman residents, to demonstrate support for Mazzi, held a sit-in in St. Peter's Square below Pope Paul's apartment...
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 apprentice. "To obey the hierarchy is to ignore the deepest needs of the poor," he said. "But to satisfy these needs is to encounter the opposition of the hierarchy. So we have to become either Pharisees or rebels. And we don't want to become either...
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