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Hotly outspoken ex-priests in the McLoughlin style are the exception today. Far more leave with a deep respect and even love for Catholicism???or at least for what it might be. Keenly disturbing the church is the quality of the exodus clergy. Says Jesuit Sociologist Eugene Schallert, who has just completed a study of 317 departed priests: "Those who are leaving are some of the best men in the church?some of the most intelligent, most enterprising, most charismatic. They are occupationally top men, capable of holding down really good jobs...
TIME did not "sleuth." The repository chosen by Governor Smith for his 50 cents was reported casually by many a daily newspaper. But even if it had not been so reported, TIME would not have hesitated to refer to so well-known a fact as Governor Smith's Roman Catholicism???a fact about which he, at least, is not hypersensitive...
Characteristic utterances: "Democracy means a victory of sentiment over reason." "Democracy is likely to perish." "The Church has lived by its monopolies and conquered by its intolerance." "There is only one thing against Catholicism???it is an imposture ; and there is only one thing in its favor?it works...
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