Religion: Words & Works

Sunday, the day of rest, is becoming America's day for doing odd jobs, complains James Bernard Kelley, a Long Island businessman, in the Catholic weekly America. "Houses are painted, roofs are replaced ... automobiles dismantled and polished." Three years ago Kelley got to thinking about his boyhood Sundays, when "I can never recall a nail driven or a blade of grass shorn." Kelley and his family have since done their chores on Saturdays. The result is that "our lawn was never in such good condition . . . More than that, the keeper of the lawn has never been in such good condition either."

¶ Before 140 delegates of the Episcopal Province of Washington, D.C., Lieut. General John C. H. ("Courthouse") Lee, wartime chief supply officer to Supreme Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower, proposed a revision of the Lord's Prayer. The phrase "Lead us not into temptation" should be changed to "Let us not fall when tempted," said General Lee, who is now vice president of the laymen's Brotherhood of St. Andrew in York, Pa. "The original phrase is wrong, because no Christian can be spared temptation."

¶ Despite Yugoslavia's censorship, news leaked out that a new priest is performing the duties of Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac, whom Tito's Communists imprisoned for five years, and who has been restricted to his home village since 1951. At a quiet service, Father Franjo Seper, 49, a tall, thin Zagreb parish priest, was consecrated archbishop and coadjutor sedi datu (coadjutor given to the see). The new title serves notice that the church regards the imprisoned Stepinac as its true cardinal-archbishop.