Word: ahr
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...identical to countless others celebrated by the Christian Layman's Experimental Organization, a group of thoughtful Roman Catholics in New Jer sey, who gather regularly to study, pray and worship. How long they will remain Catholics in good standing is now problematical: this month Bishop George W. Ahr of Trenton stripped the organization's priest-adviser, Father George Hafner, of his right to say Mass and hear confessions, and threatened him with excommunication for conducting illegal worship services. Hafner has vowed to carry on as spiritual guide to CLEO. Says Hafner: "Something as good as this for these...
...gallantly winning one for a lissome blonde at Casino Royale, or Princess Grace and Ari Onassis presiding over the glittering wheels of Monte Carlo. Titillating, perhaps, but a trifle dated. The true archetype of European gambling today is the sprawling mustard-yellow casino at sleepy Bad Neuenahr on the Ahr River in West Germany. There, few of the blondes among the intense, studious crowds at the tables last week were under 50 years of age or 150 lbs. The average chip on the schwarz and rot was a two-mark piece, worth about 50?, and the beverages were local wine...
...earns $200 a month and exhibits a certain chic-which may only mean wearing a necktie." Adds Von der Groeben with obvious relief: "We haven't had a scandal since the casino opened in 1948. We have yet to hear any shots in the night, and the Ahr River is too shallow to drown yourself...
...modern laymen are openly unhappy in parishes where the spiritual life is conducted along lines that were new a century ago.*Talking about the "emerging layman" is now a favorite parlor game of Catholic intellectuals. Some clergymen-notably Monsignor John Tracy Ellis of Catholic University and Bishop George W. Ahr of Trenton-have publicly worried that a new anticlericalism is on the rise among Catholics...