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...Denver, demonstrators with black arm bands protesting capital punishment formed a silent procession in front of the Statehouse, while in Canon City a similarly grim tableau formed alongside the walls of the Colorado State Prison. Inside, Luis Jose Monge calmly prepared to die for the brutal murder in 1963 of his wife and three of his ten children. Resisting a nationwide trend against capital punishment (TIME, April 21), Colorado voters last November voted 2 to 1 to retain the death penalty, and the state was about to execute its 77th prisoner...
...short, most sex education tries to perpetuate by enlightened sweet reasonableness the same morality that was once enforceable by social or religious canon and parental fiat. It does not necessarily work. Family Life Professor Lester Allen Kirkendall of Oregon State, who has been working on sex education since 1928, decries the tendency of parents to look on sex education as "disaster insurance." The old threats of pregnancy, venereal disease and community disapproval no longer carry the weight they once did, according to Kirkendall. "Many parents still think we can revitalize these threats," he says, "but the kids...
...Died. Canon Lionel Groulx, 89, Roman Catholic priest and early force behind French Canadian nationalism, a longtime (1915 to 1948) history professor at the University of Montreal who in lectures, countless articles and 30 books preached the revival of French Canadian civilization "contaminated by the Protestant and Saxon atmosphere," and advocated a Canada composed of virtually autonomous states; of a cardiac arrest; in Vaudreuil...
...leronymos promises to bring a breath of needed fresh air to Greece's dormant, dominant church. A native of the marble-quarrying island of Tinos, leronymos was ordained a deacon in 1932, earned scholarships to theological schools in England and Germany. He is an expert in canon law, with 90 published works to his credit, has a doctorate in divinity from the University of Athens. After World War II, he came to Queen Frederika's attention by leading a movement to repatriate Greek children who had been kidnaped by Communist guerrillas. In 1949, the royal family named...
...reforming zeal turned on the church itself. With a curt de cree, the government dismissed the 86-year-old Chrysostomos and the twelve bishops of the Holy Synod, the church's highest governing body. In as the new Primate went Archimandrite leronymos Kotsonis, a professor of canon law who happens to be personal chaplain to King Constantine. The government also replaced the bishops with churchmen of its own choice...