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Stout, smiling Father Sépinski, 56, who grew up in the smoky French mining town of Audun-le-tiche on the Luxembourg border, holds doctorates in theology and canon law, seems constantly to be ricocheting from one Franciscan province to another (he has visited England, Ireland, France, Belgium, Holland, the Holy Land and the U.S.). At his Roman offices in the Franciscan Curia General, near St. Peter's, he rises at 5 a.m. for Mass, works most nights until midnight. Said Father Sépinski of his reelection: "I think the next twelve years will kill...
...maintain silence except for a member selected to read aloud during meals and for private conferences with the retreat conductor. Members are encouraged to read such works as The Imitation of Christ, Evelyn Underbill's Worship, T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. "It seems to me," says Canon Eric Montezambert, "that men are more deeply interested in retreats than women...
...English Department envisioned literature as chemists envision the elements--with the help of a periodic Table. By dividing literature into six historical periods, the department allowed itself to handle the canon of "great" writers categorically, utilizing the tools of history and social science as an approach...
...upon his personal history. In a country whose clergy were ofter accused of being allied with the aristocracy, Wyszynski always identified himself with the working man. He was born poor, son of a church organist and schoolteacher in the village of Zuzela near Bialystok. He earned a doctorate in Canon Law and Social Sciences at the University of Lublin, and became known as a "labor priest." He wrote several books on such subjects as unemployment and the rights of labor, was even beginning to act as counsel in labor disputes when, in 1939, the Nazis blitzed Poland...
...really Cromwell's head? It looks like him-to the reddish beard and mustache and the wart over the right eyebrow. Scholars who examined it at the Royal Archaeological Institute believed it to be genuine. In Canon Wilkinson's house last week the old Roundhead rested in its oaken box. No one seemed disposed to demand burial...