Word: passionist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Sept. 8 article "The Generous Lender," reference is made to a certain controversial figure whose unique banking methods are under investigation by the Italian Parliament. Your untrue statement says: "Not long after [Giambattista] Giuffre's black custom-built Fiat sedan drew up at the monastery of the Passionist Fathers at Cesta di Copparo, the Passionists had a new monastery, 20 new acres of farm land and an $850,000 Sanctuary to the Blessed Virgin of Peace." Signor Giuffre never visited outhouse at Cesta di Copparo, nor has he ever donated so much as one Italian lira...
Superior General Passionist Fathers Rome...
...Giuffrè always repaid the loans and interest promptly. Catholic charities invested large sums with him. And all the while, Giuffrè gave unstintingly to the church and its works. Not long after Giuffrè's black custom-built Fiat sedan drew up at the monastery of the Passionist Fathers at Cesta di Copparo, the Passionists had a new monastery, 20 new acres of farm land and an $850,000 Sanctuary to the Blessed Virgin of Peace...
...Writes Richard Kugelman, a Passionist priest: " 'The Jews' are for [John] not the Jewish people but cliques, groups that are inimical to Jesus . . . The Christian who associates his Jewish neighbors with those who plotted Christ's death is perpetuating an injustice never contemplated by the apostle. If a man reads John's account of the Passion without the spirit of the gospel, he may well be tempted to point his finger and exclaim: 'Those Jews!' But if he reads it with the spirit of the gospel, he will strike his breast...