Words & Works

P:Eve may have suggested the crime but Adam was guiltier, said the Vatican weekly Osservatore della Domenica in response to a reader's query. Reason: Adam, as "head of humanity," had the greater responsibility.

P:"The clergy has fallen down on this business of the Communist Party," said Morris Ernst, lawyer and professional liberal, to officer-students of the Southern Police Institute in Louisville, Ky. By stressing the difference between "guilt and regret," he said, clergymen could encourage many more disillusioned Communists to leave the party. "It is the province of religion to hold before men the symbol ot forgiveness. Lawyers don't have the equipment for it." On parochial schools: "I think Catholic parochial schools are doing a disservice to the Catholics who go to them...I am against Jewish parochial schools. To train people separately is segregation." On U.S. Roman Catholics: "The Irish Catholic is not like the Latin Catholic. When you get Irish Catholicism overlaid with Puritanism, as in New England, you get an attitude toward censorship that would never be held by the Catholics in New Orleans. But too many people pin this censorship on the Catholic Church as a whole."

P:Two-thirds of the 3,906 U.S. conscientious objectors currently in alternative civilian service are Mennonites and Amish, the National Service Board for Religious Objectors announced. Next largest group (343); Church of the Brethren. Jehovah's Witnesses ranked third with 163, the Quakers fourth with 145.

P:The Vatican's highest court of marital law, the Sacred Roman Rota, ruled on 245 marriages in 1954, declared 131 of them invalid and 114 valid. The figures are well up from 1953, when the Rota ruled on 170 marriages, nullified 76 and declared 94 valid.

P:The Evangelical monthly, Christian Life, found in a survey that religious bookstores, from a mere sprinkling ten years ago, have increased to some 3,000. U.S. book outlets of all kinds: more than 8,500. The Christian Booksellers Association, founded in 1950 with 18 members, now has a membership of about 400.

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