Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cardinal Bea's conviction that a miracle was taking place at Rome was further deepened when non-Catholic Christian congregations and leaders offered prayers for the assembly in St. Peter's. He cited the comment of Lord Fisher, the former archbishop of Canterbury: "No council of the Church of Rome has ever met so surrounded by the prayers of other churches...
...Father Edward F. Siegman, associate professor of sacred Scripture, was ousted last year "for reasons of health" despite an 18-2 vote of protest by the faculty of sacred theology. Rumored reason: Siegman's probing scholarship irked Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, the apostolic delegate to the U.S., who also takes a dim view of Theologian Kung...
Died. Manuel Cardinal Arteaga y Betancourt. 83, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Havana, a slight, stooped man who opposed both Dictator Fulgencio Batista and Castro; in Havana...
Enter the local strongman (Peter Falk). The rebels, he says, are winning. The real chief justice, the real archbishop, the real general are dead. Why not substitute the counterfeit dignitaries, the world of illusion for the world of reality? He does, and illusion works just as well as reality. The rebels are defeated...
...earlier scenes, however, the low jinks are vigorous and apropos. Genet has a gruesomely pictorial sense of humor ("Is the archbishop dead?"-"I hope so. His head is tied to the handlebars of a little boy's bicycle") and Scenarist Ben Maddow has a cute wit of his own ("The world is full of whores, but a good bookkeeper is hard to find"). Too often, unhappily, the film is cute where the play was poetic, too often Director Joseph Strick permits his performers to natter what they are intended to intone. But moments of lurid lyricism survive, and vestiges...