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Last week's final declaration of war had its genesis in a church-supported student strike against the strong-arm regime last November. Duvalier replied by closing the schools for Christmas a month early and expelling the then ranking churchman. He drew up a law that held parents responsible for the students' attendance and conduct under pain of severe penalties. Once again, the church sided with the youngsters. As students prepared another strike, a group of teaching priests and nuns addressed a letter to Duvalier with barbed questions about...
Haiti. President François Duvalier last week felt himself so threatened by the forces of discontent in his poverty-stricken republic that he expelled the highest-ranking Roman Catholic churchman in the country, an archbishop, on the odd charge of encouraging "Communist student revolutionaries...
...Roman Catholic priests fought for his attention. "It is very hard to compress eternity into only a few moments," said the archbishop, as the organ began pealing God Save the Queen. (The organist was a Belgian Catholic who had no idea what else was appropriate for an Anglican churchman...
...pastoral letter was the third time old (76) Pérez Serantes had spoken out to lead the Cuban church against Castro as once he led it for Castro. Seven years ago, after the unsuccessful July 26 assault on Moncada Barracks, the courageous churchman had gone into the hills to plead with Batista's executioners to spare the life of a young rebel named Fidel Castro. But as Castro turned from liberator to dictator, Pérez Serantes was quick to acknowledge his original error. With him against Castro were Monsignor Eduardo Boza Masvidal, rector of Villanueva University...
Fellowship of the Spirit. The Christians who have set greatest store by the Holy Spirit have been the post-Reformation sects, such as the Baptists, Quakers, Mennonites and Moravians. Anglican Dewar is too much of a high churchman to approve of them. As a prime example, he cites Britain's George Fox (1624-1691), founder of the Society of Friends, and takes him to task for not appreciating the personality of the Holy Spirit ("he constantly refers to Him as 'it' "), and for having no "doctrine of the Church...