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...training, holding a retreat-like congress once a year in Belgium. Canon Cardijn calls it "the Jocist Sacrament." For the aim of Jocism is peaceful revolution, a Christian upsurge in the ranks of labor, based not upon Marxian materialism but upon the labor encyclicals of Popes Leo XIII and Pius XI. Jocism in doctrinates its 500,000 youngsters with that Catholic dogma which many non-Catholics (and lapsed Catholics like Hitler and Mussolini) find difficult to understand-the Mystical Body of Christ, in which, with Christ as the Head, Christians are members, in a living association which transcends nationalist...
Century ago the most notable thing about Protestant Christianity was that most of its practitioners throughout the world were optimists who believed in progress, creature comforts, civilization. Such Protestants looked down their noses when Pope Pius IX, speaking for the Roman Catholic Church, denied that it was the duty of Catholicism to come to terms with political or religious liberalism. Today, progress is not so popular a notion, and liberalism has few friends among European religious thinkers...
...past 16 years, 50 new saints-a record-have been canonized by Pope Pius XI, who has notably speeded up the process, which formerly took from 25 years to several centuries. One candidacy for sainthood which has moved rapidly is that of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, an Italian-born U. S. citizen who founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, died in Chicago in 1917 (TIME, Nov. 8, et ante-). Last month the Sacred Congregation of Rites decreed that Mother Cabrini be beatified and called "Blessed" in St. Peter's in Rome next November-the last...
...Callander, Ont. last week Mr. & Mrs. Oliva Dionne and all their twelve children, including the quintuplets, received the blessing of Pope Pius XI, brought from Vatican City by onetime President Frank Blied of the Catholic Central Verein. Said Mr. Blied: "By the grace of God, this is a blessing to the entire community. This is a different theory than birth control. This is the emancipation of humanity...
...Inquisition), handles mixed marriage cases, maintains the dread Index of Prohibited Books. So potent is the Holy Office that it is nominally headed, not by a Cardinal, like other congregations, but by the Pope himself. Last week the Holy Office-with or without the knowledge of Pope Pius XI-was in the centre of a holy row, kicked up by a devoted but backboned British convert to Catholicism, Poet Alfred Noyes...