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VATICAN CITY (NC). — Archbishop Giovanni Bennelli, the key figure in the Church's central administration (Roman Curia), and three other churchmen will be created cardinals in a solemn Vatican consistory, on June 27.
In naming Archbishop Paul was in the same job as Besides taking interest in Bennelli a cardinal and Ar- Archbishop Bennelli now all important Vatican dechbishop of Florence, Pope holds, and only one year cisions, the archbishop has Paul VI has placed the Va- older than the present pa- been known to devote much tican Under-Secretary of pal under-secretary, the ail- time to minor matters, such State among top candidates ing 78-year-old Pope Pius as finding housing for Vatto succeed him as Pope. XII appointed him the pres- ican dependents or supervising translation work. The other three church- tigious See of Milan. men named cardinals are: The move paved the way In Florence, Archbishop • African Archbishop for Archbishop Montini's Bennelli, who has been a Bernardin Gantin, pro-pres- rise to the Papacy, although Vatican diplomat for all but ident of the Pontifical Jus- he was not a cardinal and five of his 34 years as a tice and Peace Commission. ineligible for the consistory priest, will pick up pastoral • Wet conditions last Sunday did not deter Perth's Polish community honouring the feast that elected Pope John • Archbishop Joseph XXIII who promptly named experience indispensable for of Corpus Christi at Clontarf, with an outdoor Eucharistic Procession in the tradition of the being considered among great similar functions that take place in mid-summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Ratzinger of Munich, Gerhim a cardinal. the "papabili" (candidates many. for Pope). • Dominican Father Lu- WORK PRAISED igi Ciappi, papal theologian. Archbishop Bennelli, who OTHER RED HATS w as born in a small Tuscan Two other churchmen SECRET NAMING hilltown in 1921, has been who reside in Rome will "sostituto" (substitute) — The Vatican also announget the red hat with the ced that the cardinal named the official title for the pap- archbishop, Under-Secretary of secretly by Pope Paul last al LOS ANGELES (NC). "Otherwise, it only furArchbishop Bernardin May was Bishop Frantisek State — for 10 years. Silence and quiet — thers the movie's publicity GANTIN (55), has been at The job is the centreTomasek, apostolic adminand box office receipts." istrator of Prague, Czecho- piece of Vatican bureau- work in the Vatican since indignation over offenleaving his post Archas sive films, shows and, cracy. Where public picketing slovakia. Almost every Vatican de- bishop of Cotonou, Benin TV productions benefit was counterproductive, it Bishop Tomasek, whose (formerly Dahomey) in no one, according to was still possible, Father ' creation could not be made cision large and small pass- 1971. Sostituto's es desk. over the Pollard said, to protest effFather Joseph Pollard, Public last year because of He was popular cosecrearchbishop, The who tively by mail to advertisdirector of the com- empty, slogan to fend off testifies, as also the Severe tension between Czepres- ers, producers, exhibitors. speaks fluent French and tary of the Congregation for munication s departchoslovakia and the Vatican, any suggestion of .`outside'. sures of the PTA (Partnt the Evangelisation of , PeoWill be solemnly proclaimed English, has been widely "Silence and quiet indigples, which administers the ment of the Los Angel- control, censorship or direc- Teachers Association) 'and ' Cardinal at the coming con- praised for his Herculean Church's nation benefit no Ire," he es archdioces tive e. guidance. the AMA missions (American Mediaround capacity for work. iistory. added. the world, until being na"It has become import- cal Association) recently in He has sent parishes a "In a free society you In naming the 56-year-old CRITICISM med vice-president of the memorandum regard TV to violence ant, at least to me," said dealing with speak up or you don't get • Archbishop Benelli, to FloJustice and Peace CommisSome critics, however, the distress caused specifi- Father Pollard, "that we be counted. rence, 79-year-old Pope feel that the archbishop has sion in 1976. cally by the local showing aware of the value and the PICKETING "There is no silent majorPaul replayed a chapter not learned to delegate need of pressure from and/ of the movie "Nasty HabPicketing of theatre is ity because it either never • from his own life. TEACHERS enough of his enormous its," which satirises nuns. or boycott by the consum- effective when it is ''na- existed or it deserves what When the future Pope workload to his staff. er of advertising, movies tional, heavy and sustained. it's getting." Last December, when "Most people simply do and television. Pope Paul changed the conot know what to do with mmission from a temporary "Movies and television legitimate anger and goodone to a permanent one, will. programmes follow a standArchbishop Gantin was naard pattern. If one pilot "It is not enough to counmed pro-president and thus show is successful, a series assured the red hat at the ter their indictment of as- or sucession of the same sumed lack of Church leanext consistory. theme always follows. Dominican Father Luigi dership, 'What is the Chur"It does not matter that CIAPPI, born in Florence, ch doing about all this?' in 1909, was dean of the with the charge, 'What are these be offensive to significant numbers of people. theology faculty of the Pon- you doing about it?' tifical Angelicum University "From my own experienin Rome before being na- ce within the entertainment 'THE EXORCIST' med papal theologian in industry, I no longer hold "For example, the success 1968. a simple affirmative posi- of 'The Exorcist' has generHe is a consultor to the tion on 'freedom of expres- ated more than 20 major Vatican Secretariat of sion,' dramatic license,' and films in the same category. State to the doctrinal Con- other such platitudes. "The failure, on the oth"Where qualitycomesfirst" gregation: er hand, of 'The Passover 3 85 Canning Highway,Melville. Archbishop Joseph RAT- 'EMPTY SLOGAN' Plot' • has forced the film's ZINGER, named to the Phone 39 1711 Lie. No. 3371. "The industry is just that: withdrawal and interrupted See of Munich only two the scheduling and produrmonths ago, was dogmatic an industry. tion -of several projected HONDA. "It is bound hand and theology professor at the University of Regensburg, foot to sales, competition successors. and profit. WMP-7 "Pressure and boycott do Germany. "It follows, for me, that work,- as the picketing of CANNINGTON: 1308 Albany H/Way. 68 1826 (• CONTINUED PAGE 4) `self-regulation' is simply an The Passover Plot' amply Igf31 tic 0891.
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