Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...326th Commencement exercises will begin at 10 a.m. following a senior class chapel service which will be held at 9 a.m. in Memorial Church...
...doesn't have a religion department--you might just as well be going to Yeshiva or someplace like that." (Ignatius had done graduate work in mathematics at Yeshiva and had never recovered from the shock.) Worse than that, though, Harvard didn't have discipline--no more parietals, no compulsory chapel at 6 a.m. And to top it all off, Harvard had women. The path to damnation was opening wider and wider in Ignatius's eyes...
Reason would not work. I made my case forcefully, noting that none of the major Catholic schools had parietals anymore, that even Holy Cross had surrendered to co-education, that early-morning chapel had gone the way of all flesh, even at Fordham. In short, all of Ignatius's arguments were bogus--Harvard could not possibly corrupt me any more than the purest citadel of religious learning. Fulton Sheen would have been proud...
Women Priests. Both Donald Coggan and Pope Paul desire eventual reunification. Their joint declaration last week, issued after the two men presided together over a prayer service in the Sistine Chapel, included a pledge "to live and work courageously in the hope of reconciliation and unity in our common Lord." Yet there was no further mention of intercommunion, and the prelates noted "serious obstacles both of the past and of recent origin." Presumably, the new obstacle is the ordination of women as priests in the Episcopal Church in the U.S., a move heartily approved by the visiting Archbishop and adamantly...
...Doug Slocombe's quick eye for creating atmosphere with his roving camera. In a single shot, he shows the bustle of inner city Philadelphia, then contrasts the street with an aerial view of the majestic abbey. His close-ups of the stained-glass windows in the abbey's chapel are particularly delicate. And his lens remains clean throughout; the scandal unfolds crisply through film, without the usual smokey scenes of conspiracy...