NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS & VIEWS The Moneychangers You've got to get up early to beat the Pallottine Fathers to a buck, as news stories have made clear in coupling the Pallottines with the financial happenstances of...
...Likewise bucked up is the Italian tourist industry which netted an extra $630 million, thanks to the Holy Year- "a much needed shot in the arm after a two-year reces-sion,"The Economist noted...
...The revelation comes as no surprise, however, to mail-list brokers...
...They point out that composers of music receive royalties whenever a recording of their work is performed or broadcast, so why not writers also when their books are borrowed under a public roof...
...Writer*' Right* Might Britain be pioneering a financial break-through for writers...
...Most were either Loyalist (27 percent) or Undecided (26 percent...
...JOHN DEEDY...
...The dope-sheet of one demonstrates why in describing this offering of 59,000 names: "These are all participants in novenas to St...
...Would you have joined a Patriot Militia...
...How many of the 8.4 million were bona fide pilgrims is another question...
...They also don't cotton to the idea of the archdiocese becoming a landlord of the CIA...
...Just as the number of priests and sisters who have departed seems to have bottomed out, so too does it appear that most Catholics who have voted their dissatisfaction by removing themselves from the weekend mass routine and parish activities have already departed the scene...
...A minority (47 percent) sided with the Patriots...
...Jude, the Patron of the Impossible...
...Administrative expenses for either plan would take the best part of $500,000, by one estimate, and the gain to the average author would only be between £9 and £44 annually...
...The CIA has offices in the building, with a lease running to February 1977...
...Would you have dumped tea into Boston Harbor...
...Beyond that, question mark...
...The voice of the Bingo Number is heard once again in the land...
...If you're like most of those visiting a Boston Bicentennial exhibit, you just might be...
...This may be all for the good, but' one gets the impression that people are afraid that one more shake, rattle and roll may bring the whole structure down...
...Are you a latent Tory...
...Magee wanted a "bona fide newspaper, rather than a publication which is merely a religious information guide, a weekly version of the catechism or a house organ...
...One would give authors a special fee when their books were purchased by libraries...
...Besides, there's the cost...
...There are huge gaps in many places, as in a WW I Infantry Battalion re-mustering after a charge from the trenches, but for the time being, at least, the shooting appears to have stopped...
...many cheap Holy Year charter flights to see the sights of Rome...
...The more zealous divert themselves with Marriage Encounters and the committed have given up talking in favor of good works like small but effective groups who gather food for the local poor, visit the sick and aging...
...Courier was dispatched by Bishop Loras Walters after a disagreement over "what the diocesan newspaper should be and become...
...Yes, say Britain's writers...
...They dispute the estimates, and in fact see a potential boon (as writers' boons go, that is) particularly in the adoption of the bill tied to borrowing...
...The lease will be honored...
...His concept of a paper began appearing this month...
...The Archdiocese of Denver's purchase of a six-story "plush" office building in an affluent part of the city upsets some Denver Catholics, who don't think the purchase lends itself well to the concept of a church whose mission is to serve the people...
...By the time the Holy Door was reseated at year's end, some 8.4 million visitors had checked into Rome, more than three times the number for the last Holy Year (1950), when some 2.5 million arrived...
...Jude...
...Nevertheless, the Vatican is "visibly bucked up" by the statistics, continued The Economist, especially the fact that the throng included a large proportion of youths...
...There's a sort of shell-shocked return to the good old days...
...Holy Profit Believe The Economist of London: the Vatican's Holy Year was far from being the flop many expected and that even the Pope had feared...
...Msgr...
...Odds mud Ends - Another priest-editor bites the dust...
...They talk about anything but the sermon and the liturgy, birth control and abortion...
...Watters' word was law...
...Contributors' list is cleaned annually by the list owner, one of the very successful Catholic fund raisers in the U.S...
...Don't Shake or Rattle The Chicago newsletter Overview, in its annual compendium of Catholic happenings, offers this assessment of the 1975 American lay scene: "It may be the calm at the eye of the storm or it may be that the storm has swept past, but there has been a tran-quility or at least a detente in many parishes in recent months...
...Lending a book to an individual borrower is not the same thing, some argue, as performing music for a mass of people...
...Seems logical, but not everyone is buying...
...Would the return justify the expense...
...Among survivors there's a sort of moratorium on comment and criticism...
...Andrew Greeley's NORC findings prompted him to label the massive decline in regular mass attendance the greatest revolution in religious practice since the Reformation, but quite a few people still wash up in the Sunday pews...
...They have made donations (see above for years and amounts of contributions) to help perpetuate and to spread devotion to St...
...Will there be another Holy Year in 2000...
...The other would employ new computer techniques of accounting to pay writers a royalty each time one of their books was borrowed from the library...
...Could be...
...Britain's authors favor the bills, of course...
...William T. Magee of the Winona (Minn...
...This should, like other Pallottine lists, work well for other Catholic fund raising organizations...
...Under discussion there are two bills that would join writers' incomes to library usage...
...In Britain, people borrow ten times as many books from libraries as they buy, a ratio far exceeding that of France, Sweden, West Germany or the U.S...
...In short, the era of debate and theology has given way to doing, being together, keeping quiet...
...Watters' idea was a bimonthly tabloid without advertising that emphasizes teaching and instruction, and features diocesan news and projects, "especially programs sponsored by the various diocesan offices...
...Some 70,000 visitors have been invited to vote on the issues of 1761-1766: Would you have paid the stamp tax or boycotted British goods...
...With papal doubts now dispelled," The Economist says you can bet on it...
...NEWS & VIEWS The Moneychangers You've got to get up early to beat the Pallottine Fathers to a buck, as news stories have made clear in coupling the Pallottines with the financial happenstances of Maryland's Governor Mandel and Maine's Senator Muskie...
...Said The Economist: "It is fairly certain (and not denied in Rome) that not a few of these ostensible Catholic pilgrims were in fact staunch Protestant ladies from Britain, Jewish professors from the United States and other non-Catholics, or even non-believers, who took advantage of the...
Vol. 103 • January 1976 • No. 3
