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Monsignor Andrea's words were calm, dignified, nonrevolutionary. But they ranged a distinguished churchman with students, professors, workers and other civilians in a mounting popular protest against a mounting rightist dictatorship. "To dominate slaves," exhorted the Bishop, "is doubly ignoble; to reign over the free is doubly glorious! Your Excellency, Señor Presidente: let your authority be the guaranty of our liberty...
...Irrational Knot. While Vegetarian Shaw ate Brussels sprouts and raw carrots and harangued against those who eat "the dead carcasses of animals," Mrs. Shaw ate juicy steaks and commented on his "rabbit food." He liked Wagner; she liked Bach. He was no churchman; she and one of her close friends, Lady Astor, became Christian Scientists...
...world had again to take stock of this centuries-old force, the Roman Catholic Church. Who is this apostle of peace? What is Pope Pius XII as symbol, as man, as churchman, as a power for peace among nations and the more fundamental social peace...
...Walter Lippmann and a pious churchman might agree that Leo XIII was attacking not liberalism as defined by Lippmann in The Good Society, but the common perversion of liberalism...
...about 2% of chaplain candidates fail to get commissions-mostly for reasons of temperament. When commissioned, a chaplain's age determines his rank: those under 38 are lieutenants (j.g.); those over 38, full lieutenants. But whether he ranks as lieutenant or captain (highest he can get), the Navy churchman is never referred to by rank, but always as "Chaplain So-and-So." When his men call him "padre" he knows he has arrived...