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...rectangular openings, decorated by stained glass designed by Le Corbusier. The broad church door also bore a symbolic painting by Le Corbusier, done in enamel. Capping it all was a swelling, sausage-roll roof from which extends a mighty spout to carry rain water to a concrete tank. Said Abbé Besançon, one of Ronchamp's priests: the church is "ungodly and ungainly...
...hard and soft at the same time, like the Gospels." Swiss Architect Hermann Bauer praised it as "more like sculpture than a work of architecture." A band of gypsies, adept at mind reading, decided they liked the new chapel "because of its pure form and white color." Even Abbé Besançon confessed a change of heart: "I take back everything I said against the chapel. I think it is beautiful and believe people can pray...
...more for euthanasia than I am for sin," insisted Abbé Jeanjean when it was over. "Gepponi was the unconscious instrumental cause of an act whose victim was the motivating cause...
...Reject." When the Roman Catholic Church proclaimed the dogma of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in 1950, Abbé Dubois decided he could not accept it. "I believe about the Virgin Mary everything that is contained about her in the Gospel and I reject all that is apocryphal," he told his parishioners. "I believe more in the efficacy of the example of her faith than in the legends of the Middle Ages." Word of this heresy reached 84-year-old Cardinal Saliège, Archbishop of Toulouse. The cardinal decided to give Father Dubois time to reconsider, but Dubois...
...Abbé Pierre France has a new hero. Two French producers said last week they would make movies about him. In a busy warehouse, an unemployed carpenter looked up from counting emergency-issue blankets to watch the tough Abbé stride past. "There goes another St. Vincent de Paul," he said. "Only better. He's so much more efficient...