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Both in Europe and the U.S., a few recalcitrant priests and congregations are stubbornly holding on to the Tridentine Latin Mass, which was replaced by a new rite in the wake of Vatican II. Best known in the U.S. is Father Gommar De Pauw, who draws worshipers from as far as 100 miles away for his Tridentine Masses each Sunday in Westbury, L.I. De Pauw's Masses are also broadcast on 20 radio stations coast-to-coast. Another small coterie of believers, who want to make the U.S. a "Christian Commonwealth" (i.e., a Catholic one), clusters around L. Brent...
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...Pauw did so, but managed to get to Rome for the final session of the council. Some negotiations with conservative Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani of the Holy Office resulted in a proposal to transfer De Pauw from Baltimore to Tivoli, a small suburban diocese of Rome. Shehan tentatively agreed to the reincardination, but never sent along the formal papers. Bishop Luigi Faveri of Tivoli went ahead to sign the docu ments accepting De Pauw as his charge...
Early this month, confident that he was safely out of the jurisdiction of nontraditionalist Cardinal Shehan, De Pauw arrived in New York, declaring that it was now the home base for his movement. But, as it quickly turned out, he was not home free. Cardinal Shehan declared that he had not released De Pauw. Bishop Faveri, after thinking the matter over, agreed that the priest was still Baltimore's property - a judgment that the Vatican Secretary of State solemnly affirmed. Last week Shehan bluntly ordered De Pauw to return to Baltimore for a discussion of his future...
...Pauw's plight differed from Berrigan's in that he had openly challenged church policy and conciliar directives, whereas Berrigan had embarrassed his superiors in a secular matter. But both cases showed that priests are much like privates when it comes to higher orders...