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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Memorial services for the late Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, Emeritus, who died Sept. 7, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Fri. in Memorial Church...
...Frank Church is the state's liberal movement now, but that might be changing. Democrats are weak and socially inferior in this conservative state. McCarthy forces led by Robert Hart '68 built a grassroots organization which may serve as a base to build a liberal issue-oriented movement in the next four years. Liberal Republicans were badly defeated in 1966 and might be persuaded to vote for the opposition if progressive candidates backed by socially-acceptable forces can be found. Hart is the man to watch; McCarthy workers have joined Church's tough re-election battle this fall...
...Vatican for a dispensation from his vow of celibacy. Some prelates simply ignore these requests, and Rome has been equally reluctant about dispensing men from vows. As a result, most for mer priests have married without permission, thereby incurring automatic excommunication. Few feel any guilt about doing so. "The church has its rules," says Don C. MacLeaish, 42, a married priest from Texas, "yet I don't think I'll go to hell...
Without Bitterness. Surprisingly enough, the majority of former priests have no sense of bitterness toward the church and still consider themselves Catholics in good standing. Many attend daily Mass and receive the sacraments. Still others celebrate Mass, either privately, for their new families at home, or in underground churches. St. Louis and Detroit, for example, have cells of former priests and nuns who meet regularly to discuss their common problems...
...they were allowed to, many former priests would return to the service of the church. They are firmly convinced that Catholicism must sooner or later allow its clerics to marry. That eventuality will not take place during the papacy of Paul VI, who last year reaffirmed the rule of celibacy for the church. Nevertheless, many former priests continue to informally practice their ministry, and still consider themselves priests. For them, the truth is that they have not left the church: they are simply ahead...