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NEWS & VIEWS Papal Sweepstakes Who's going to be the next Pope? The most promising candidates, according to Vaticanologist Francis X. Murphy, are two "middle-aged" Italian members of...
...The figures show that 317 dailies subscribe to Buckley's column...
...Odds and Ends --Enrollment in U.S...
...Murphy expects the next conclave to go Italian--as all conclaves have gone since the misadventure with Adrian VL a Dutchman (1522-23...
...It is smaller than the number in post-college theologates---exactly the reverse of customary statistics...
...But he would be in a position to carry through the radical curial reforms in Vatican structure initiated by Pope Paul...
...He sees a non-Italian choice falling rather on someone like Vienna's Cardinal Franz Koenig, 69, or on Cardinal Jan Willebrands, 65, the Dutch head of the Secretariat for Christian Unity...
...The showing demonstrates that most editors will provide space for reply voluntarily, without the prod of 'reply' legislation...
...Belgium's Cardinal Suenens is discounted as being out of favor, and The Netherlands' Cardinal Alfrink as being "too controversial for serious consideration...
...Paul's pontificate will go down in history as momentous," Murphy comments...
...Morning News for Nov...
...That according to Msgr...
...Horizons, a hefty biannual published at Villanova University as the journal of the College Theology Society...
...Side one includes: "On This Day, O Beautiful Mother," the Angelus, "O Mary Conceived Without Sin, the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary, and "Our Lady of Good Counsel...
...Assessment as follows: "Created a cardinal last year, he has shown great courage in dealing with the poor and with dissident priests and religious...
...The Archdiocese of Philadelphia is projecting a deficit of some $10 million over the next three years, much of this attributable to school costs...
...Should the unexpected happen, Murphy does not envision the conclave settling the papacy on an Asian or an African...
...Its situation may be unique...
...Catholic Near East Magazine, a publication aimed at drawing readers closer to lhe work of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association...
...But it's cause for concern that nearly 30 per cent of the editors did not print even excerpts from Archbishop Byrne's response to Buckley's attack...
...His primary handicap as pope would be a lack of knowledge of the outside world...
...Publishing Gains Some different news, for a change, from the field of religious publishing...
...The Archdiocese of Denver recently closed its fiscal year with a surplus of $2,570,000...
...Alongside the ad was a news story headed: "Priest Seeks Liquor License...
...The idea that such total strangers to Vatican mores could take over the papacy tends to boggle the minds of Catholics close to the Roman scene," he says...
...The results are now in, and they receive featured treatment in the current Columbia Journalism Review...
...Catholic seminaries is down 55 percent since 1965...
...Paul for supporting a union boycott of Farah clothing products...
...19 carried an advertisement of the Blue, Army of Erie for a new stereo record, priced at $4.50...
...Meanwhile, three religious publications have braved the times and made their debut: Christianity Applied, a California magazine dedicated to scholarship, creativity and communication...
...Contretemps, Maybe...
...For those who like to bet dark horses, Murphy touts Cardinal Ugo Poletti, 60, the Pope's vicar "for the Diocese of Rome...
...Some 301 answered the Conference's query--95 percent of the total...
...Side two includes: "Immaculate Mary," the Memorare, "Mother Dearest, Mother Fairest," the Magnificat, "Come Holy Ghost, Creator Blest," etc., etc...
...Fifty-five, or 28 percent, did not run Byrne...
...Of the 195 papers that printed Buckley's column, 140 carried Byrne's reply-72 percent of the papers...
...The syndicate agreed, and out went the response with a covering note from Byrne asking newspapers "in the name of fairness and equal treatment according to the best canons of journalism, [to] publish the response, preferably in a similar location and with similar treatment...
...Testing Fairness Several months ago, during the Farah Manufacturing Co...
...Of these 301, seven said they did not receive the Byrne reply...
...Especially worrisome is said to be the number of men attending college-level seminaries...
...JOHN DEEDY 20 December 1974:250...
...When is the next conclave likely to be held...
...For the standards committee of the National Conference of Editorial Writers, the Byrn~ request became a test of journalistic principles and editors' willingness to grant space to people who are atcacked, although there is no enforceable legal obligation requiring them to do so...
...The Erie, Pa...
...and One World, a monthly of the World Council of Churches which will focus on trends and events in the churches and in the ecumenical movement...
...labor strike, columnist William F. Buckley, Jr., attacked Archbishop Leo C. Byrne, recently deceased, of Minneapolis-St...
...It has received $23,000 from 350 persons in response to its life-or-death appeal for $35,000...
...Writing in the Washington Post, Redemptorist Father Murphy says "both are men with wide experience in the Vatican diplomatic service who are known to take a middle-of-the-road stance in Church policies and would presumably follow in the footsteps of Pope Paul...
...Andrew A. McGowan, head of the National Conference of Diocesan Vocations Directors...
...Pope Paul is showing signs of age and occasionally limps from arthritis, but the "vigorous manner" in which he presided over the recent Synod has scotched rumors, says Murphy, that Paul VI is suffering a fatal illness or headed into retirement...
...A 1972 estimate had elementary and secondary schools of the archdiocese "most likely" compiling a $55 million deficit by 1975...
...The last prospect is not dismaying to Murphy, who feels that Pope Paul has coped adequately with the "startling intricacies" of the post-conciliar Church...
...Wayne H. Cowan, editor, is confident the remaining $12,000 can be raised before the end of the year...
...Murphy does not predict a time...
...99 said they did not use the Buckley column, and therefore could not be expected to run the reply...
...Christianity & Crisis will continue...
...in the sisterhoods, 81 percent...
...Gilbert Cranberg of the Des Moines Register and Tribune sums up: "That more than seven out of ten papers carried the reply surprised the syndicate, which expected few editors to comply with the bishop's request...
...Archbishop Byrne asked the Washington Star Syndicate, circulators of Buckley's column, to send its subscribers his response to Buckley's attack...
...The most promising candidates, according to Vaticanologist Francis X. Murphy, are two "middle-aged" Italian members of the Curia: Cardinal Sebastino Baggio, 61, secretary o f the Congregation of Bishops, and Cardinal Sergio Pignedoli, 64, head of the Secretariat for Non-Christians...
Vol. 101 • December 1974 • No. 10
