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What the real pros think about Chappaquiddick: Christian Science Monitor poll of one hundred Democratic national committeemen and state chairmen on Mr. X for ’72 reports that forty favor Muskie as Presidential candidate; sixteen are for Humphrey, five for Kennedy, two for Sen. Fred Harris and— surprise—none for Sen. George McGovern. Before Chappaquiddick, they had been almost unanimous in_ their support for EMK. . . . First faltering among the Kennedyites: Ted Sorensen says he doesn’t think Teddy should run in 1972 because he didn’t show up well “under pressure at this stage in his life.” . . . A question Catholics are starting to raise: Why didn’t any of the Catholics on the scene get a priest for Mary Jo, which is the first thing Catholics think of at a death?

Fallout from Vatican II? Catholic Press Directory reports that Catholic magazines and newspapers in the U.S. and Canada lost two million subscribers in the past year—a decline of 7 per cent. . . . According to National Catholic Reporter, 2,700 Catholic priests resigned that same year. . . . A survey by RC bishops shows that the vast majority of Roman Catholics in America do not want any easing of the attendance rules on the five Holy Days of Obligation now on the calendar— i.e., they feel liberalization has gone far enough. . . . In Washington, D.C. a week ago Mrs. Philip Hart, wife of the senator from Michigan, helped distribute Holy Communion at an underground Mass forbidden by the Cardinal. Among the hymns: “Georgy Girl,” “The Impossible Dream” and, as Recessional, what else but “When the Saints Go Marching In.”

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What the real pros think about Chappaquiddick: Christian Science Monitor poll of one hundred Democratic national committeemen and state chairmen on Mr. X for ’72 reports that forty favor Muskie as Presidential candidate; sixteen are for Humphrey, five for Kennedy, two for Sen. Fred Harris and— surprise—none for Sen. George McGovern. Before Chappaquiddick, they had been almost unanimous in_ their support for EMK. . . . First faltering among the Kennedyites: Ted Sorensen says he doesn’t think Teddy should run in 1972 because he didn’t show up well “under pressure at this stage in his life.” . . . A question Catholics are starting to raise: Why didn’t any of the Catholics on the scene get a priest for Mary Jo, which is the first thing Catholics think of at a death?

Fallout from Vatican II? Catholic Press Directory reports that Catholic magazines and newspapers in the U.S. and Canada lost two million subscribers in the past year—a decline of 7 per cent. . . . According to National Catholic Reporter, 2,700 Catholic priests resigned that same year. . . . A survey by RC bishops shows that the vast majority of Roman Catholics in America do not want any easing of the attendance rules on the five Holy Days of Obligation now on the calendar— i.e., they feel liberalization has gone far enough. . . . In Washington, D.C. a week ago Mrs. Philip Hart, wife of the senator from Michigan, helped distribute Holy Communion at an underground Mass forbidden by the Cardinal. Among the hymns: “Georgy Girl,” “The Impossible Dream” and, as Recessional, what else but “When the Saints Go Marching In.”