Words & Works

>The Senate Finance Committee voted to extend social-security benefits to clergymen on a voluntary basis. They would have two years in which to elect coverage. The committee voted against coverage for professional groups such as doctors and lawyers but considered the clergy a special "hardship" case.

>The fortnightly Episcopal Churchnews called upon Congress for censorship of all forms of mass communication to combat "moral and ethical subversion." Admitting that "to many Americans . . . any mention of censorship is considered closely akin to treason," the magazine held that "a much greater threat lies in the incitements to crime, violence and immorality that are circulated persistently, seven days and nights a week."

> The Vatican distributed the 16th volume of the speeches and radio messages of Pope Pius XII, containing 86 papal pronouncements made between March 1953 and March 1954. In the 15 years of his pontificate, the Pope has made almost 1,000 pronouncements on such varied subjects as doctrine, the social order, music, art, journalism, education, sport, agriculture, war victims, commerce, microbiology, navigation, wine, penal law, silk, tourism, psychoanalysis, neuropsychiatry, army doctors, the poor.

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