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NEWS & VIEWS Maurtce Lavanoux He stood for refinement and taste in the religious arts, and to the extent that both have standing in official Catholicism, his death is a serious...
...Another sketch showed a robed cardinal sitting on a street corner, begging bowl in hand, saying: "The poor face of the Church...
...Well, another papal gesture intended to help alleviate human suffering is also turning into something of a mockery...
...It was the latter that raised ecclesiastical hackles...
...Its vehicles will include a small museum of contemporary Christian art located in New York City and available, via tour, to dioceses around the country, and a reference library on artists and architects for diocesan liturgical committees and others...
...LOUIS (RNs)--Roman Catholic vocation directors have proposed that married priests be re-instated to the active ministry "in some official Church-recognized capacity...
...The cross and the ring, it develops, were in his possession at the time of his unsuccessful effort to rocket across the Snake River Canyon in Idaho last September...
...His life was a succession of triumphs and failures...
...Guess who was sporting them last...
...He later wore them in a TV appearance...
...But he wasn't consulted, and he was annoyed_9 "Why are Catholic sources slighted here and in Rome...
...The cross and ring were sold by the UN at public auction in 1967 for $64,000, with the money divided between four UN agencies involved in relief and rehabilitation work...
...he had never compromised...
...Remember how the tiara turned up in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception as a gift for the American people --without any explanation about how they qualified as the poor of the world...
...I only want to make sure that you go away and never come back...
...Paese Sera protested the Vatican action as "an unequivocal attack on freedom of the press and on freedom of speech, as well as a blow to the right of access to information guaranteed to all journalists...
...Maurice Lavanoux is gone, but his dreams linger, through the Society for the Renewal of Christian Art, which he served as president...
...Problem~Remedy Lead paragraphs from three October news stories that speak volumes: WASHINGTON (RNS)-"~ total of 7,418 American Catholic missionaries are serving in 120 countries or posts outside the contiguous 48 states, according to the 1974 Mission Handbook . . . . This is a decrease of 273 from the 1973 total and continues a decline which began in 1968 when 9,655 Catholic missionaries were serving abroad . . . . ST...
...In 1972 he saw the Liturgical Arts Society, of which he was a founder, disband after 41 years of struggle, and along with it the distinguished quarterly Liturgical Arts, of which Lavanoux was editor, ad manager, subscription editor and file clerk_9 This past year he saw his expertise ignored by the Vatican, when it finally got around to establishing a Museum of Modern Art...
...Its obituary was set off with a threecolumn picture showing Lavanoux surrounded by articles of Christian art...
...On the last day of the Synod, Paese Sera featured six Spadini cartoons in its roundup of Synod discussions...
...After all, what's a pope compared to Evel Knievel...
...JOHN DEEDY 22 November 1974:178...
...Apparently, this would enhance their value...
...Odds and Ends -.-.-WIN, says a member of the Alabama delegation, really means "Wallace In November," 1976...
...the latter weighed down his years, most especially the last ones...
...NEWS & VIEWS Maurtce Lavanoux He stood for refinement and taste in the religious arts, and to the extent that both have standing in official Catholicism, his death is a serious loss...
...Present owners are Can-Am Holdings, Inc., and Morton Steiman Galleries, Inc., of Minneapolis...
...Remember the diamondstudded papal cross and ring that Pope Paul presented to the United Nations during his 1965 visit...
...he asked in his diary...
...Ownership has changed at least once since then...
...Spadini was philosophical: "Priest or no, it looks as though I've been suspended a divinis"--that is, from priestly functions...
...Friends were upset that the obit seemed to stop at 1946, but the point of Maurice Lavanoux' life had been made clear...
...LOUIS (RNS)--The shortage of Roman Catholic religious vocations---already being felt widely--will hit even harder in five to ten years, according to an exhaustive report made to the 1 lth annual National Conference of Diocesan Vocations Directors here . . . . ST...
...Why are those of us who have worked and slaved for decades for a modern and living religious art _9 . . so crudely bypassed...
...The New York Times was more sensitive...
...It seems Knievel "owned" the items for a couple of weeks, and had agreed to publicize them while they were in his possession...
...Lavanoux might have saved the Museum from becoming a "commercial affair" cluttered with secondary works by otherwise top-grade talent...
...Evel Knievel...
...It will continue to foster the refined taste in religious arts that was Lavanoux...
...They value the items now at about $3 million...
...Maurice Lavanoux was 80 when he died recently, asleep in the armchair where he worked to the very end in his Queens home...
...The former he wore lightly...
...Actually, nothing would be a more fitting tribute to his memory than the reactivation of the quarterly_9 Evel's Papal Jewels Remember that papal tiara that Pope Paul laid on the altar of St...
...There are also plans to resurrect Liturgical Arts...
...Peter's ten years ago this month as a symbolic gift to the poor...
...Maurice Lavanoux once quipped that his 40 years at Liturgical Arts ought to merit him four centuries off in Purgatory...
...The resolution referred to those priests who "found it necessary to leave the active ministry and who retain a desire to serve God's people through their ordained ministry and who find their married status as the only obstacle to such ministry...
...No l l e r b i o c k s Wanted The Vatican press office has lifted the accreditation of Lillo Spadini of Paese Sera Rome's Communist newspaper, in pique over his handling of the recent Synod of Bishops_9 Spadini is a reporter who frequently illustrates his pieces with cartoons...
...To accent "Indigenization," the ill-fated proposal to adapt Catholic faith and worship to local cultures, Spadini depicted a black African bishop chasing a fat, elderly white bishop, and calling out, "Don't be frightened...
...Give charity to a poor cardinal...
...How much of this appreciation is attributable to Evel Knievel is not clear...
...In a colleague's words, he had waged "persistent, if gentle, warfare against imitative, tasteless or unimaginative church art...
Vol. 101 • November 1974 • No. 7
