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...Richard B. Griffin S. J. '51, Catholic chaplain of Harvard and Radcliffe, will fly to Paris on Thursday to participate in a "Catholic Commission of Inquiry" into the recent growth of antiwar sentiment within the Catholic community of South Vietnam...
...amnesty is attractive, especially to the leaders, who typically formulate the demands. There is something else you may control: whom you negotiate with. You can specify that it be the warden or the governor or the publisher of a newspaper or someone from the Prison Reform Society or the chaplain. They don't have to comply, but you don't have to negotiate. You can often demand publicity. Sometimes you can demand subsequent investigation...
...Medical School, an informal group of students and faculty members held a teach-in last night to discuss physician resistance to the war. Yale Chaplain William Sloan Coffin Jr. spoke, as did Vietnam veterans...
Stephens' attempt to evoke that memory began two years ago when as chaplain of Coventry's biggest hospital he encountered two dying boys: Billy Henderson, 12, who had cancer in his legs, chest and bloodstream; and Kenneth Lawley, 11, with head injuries resulting from a fall from his bike. "Billy died first," said Stephens, "and I felt a need to tell his parents they were not alone in their grief. I told them about Kenneth, and after Kenneth died I introduced the two sets of parents." Adds Joan Henderson: "We found we could cry together about our boys...
...Robert F. Duryea, 49, has been a priest for 25 years. He has also been married, it turned out, for nearly seven of them. While serving as chaplain at San Jose's O'Connor Hospital, he had struck up a friendship with a young nurse named Lualan O'Connor, now 30. "Hospitals are such timeless places," he recalls. "It seems like such a dreamlike thing." A sympathetic priest married them quietly. Duryea settled his wife in nearby Santa Clara. A son came along 1½ years later, and the couple named him Paul, after Pope Paul...