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...comment of Jesus: 'It were better for that man if he had not been born.' I cannot think of that tragic Easter drama," he went on, "without associating it in my mind, as bishop and pastor, with thoughts of the abandonment, of the flight of so many brethren in the priesthood." His voice shaking, the Pontiff castigated the "vile earthly reasons" many had for leaving the priesthood and asked the congregation to pray "for those runaway brethren and for the communities they deserted and scandalized...
With a few exceptions, the record of the social forecasters is even more dismal than that of their brethren in the physical sciences. In 1784 the Marquis de Condorcet, a leading mathematician and philosopher of the Enlightenment, saw a placid present and looked forward to an even more placid future. "The great probability," he said, "is that we will have fewer great changes and fewer large revolutions to expect from the future than from the past. The prevailing spirit of moderation and peace seems to assure us that henceforth wars will be less frequent." Reverse everything and Condorcet would have...
...Bethany Brethren Hospital, a 66-bed facility run by the Church of the Brethren, went out of its way to accept poor residents as patients as early as 1960, when the area's ethnic makeup began changing rapidly from Italian to Spanish to black. By the time of the 1968 race riots, 90% of Bethany's patients were black; though nearby buildings were damaged during the disorders, the hospital sheltered community residents and escaped untouched...
They are not an utterly united front. One black carpenter, a World War II veteran, denounced his parading brethren as "make-believe patriots and cowards." Another construction worker called the marchers "storm troopers," and asserted that one contractor had offered his men cash bonuses to take part in the Wall Street head-busting...
...Falana), who has been carrying on with a white policeman (Anthony Zerbe). Jones discards his cowardice and sues for divorce-a maneuver designed to expose the sinners and, incidentally, the hypocrisy of the state of Tennessee. Jones' "liberation" is his murder, but along the way he frees his brethren and damns the Old South, as presented by his pompous white lawyer Lee J. Cobb...