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...free to pick his confessor (most Catholics confess to whatever priest happens to be avail able) and to switch to another if he does not find him satisfactory. The Pope usually announces the identity of his own confessor, who is currently an old friend of his from Venice, Msgr. Alfredo Cavagna. But this procedure would obviously be impractical for the President, since it would focus embarrassing publicity on his confessor, attract undue attention to the President's private religious life...
...trilogy and would let the two books stand as a unit. He wrote a strange, apparently autobiographical account of a bout of hallucination and irrationality, titled The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (TIME, Aug. 12, 1957), and in 1960, he published the biography of Britain's late, literary Msgr. Ronald Knox. But the third book was only waiting. "He took the pile of manuscript, his unfinished novel, from the drawer and glanced through it," he wrote on the last page of Pinfold. "The story was still clear in his mind. He knew what had to be done...
...VERY REV. MSGR.) I. D. ILLICH Executive Director Center of Intercultural Formation Cuernavaca, Mexico...
...Loves Pedro? Last week. Msgr. Illich greeted his second class at Chula Vista-35 men and women, eleven from Canada, including three married couples. All have some special skill that they plan to use in their minimum of three years' missionary work: nurse, teacher, agricultural expert, credit union or cooperative manager. "We presuppose these skills; we do not provide them." says Illich. "Those of good will alone need not apply." For skilled North Americans, coming from a highly technological society, have a special mission to Latin America, which is beginning to go through the same urbanization that...
...because you love God in him, you are wrong. There is no worse offense. It is a denial of the natural order." And it is through the natural order that man approaches the supernatural-this is the paradox of the Incarnation. "The world and everything in it," said Msgr. Illich, "is redeemed...