Catholics v. M.R.A.

The Roman Catholic Church has turned thumbs down on the Moral Re-Armament movement. In Washington, D.C. the National Catholic Welfare Conference's press department, clearing house of all U.S.-Catholic public information, issued a pointed resume of "important Church documents recently released in various parts of the world." Heart of the resume: a letter to all bishops from the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office at the Vatican. Excerpt: "It is not fitting for ... priests, and much less for nuns, to participate in the meetings of Moral Re-Armament, [nor should] the faithful accept posts of responsibility in Moral Re-Armament . . ."

Also released, a letter from Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo, Secretary of the Holy Office: "[It is astonishing] to see Catholics and even priests seek certain moral and even social objectives, however praiseworthy, in the bosom of a movement which possesses neither the patrimony of doctrine or of spiritual life . . ."

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