Word: clerical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...superior only once a year, as required. Shortly after Reza Shah was deposed by the British and the Soviets in 1941, Khomeini published a polemic attacking the Pahlavi dynasty for its efforts to bring down the clergy. In 1944, he acquired further recognition by being the only cleric who refused to rise when the new Shah came to visit the school...
...even a robust 59-year-old. Since taking office, the Pope has suffered from a lack of his customary exercise and reportedly has dropped about 15 Ibs. due to overwork. He is installing an 83-ft. swimming pool at Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer retreat. When a French cleric injudiciously remarked on the cost, the Pope was quick to reply, "It's less expensive than having another conclave...
...plot is absurd. A parish priest says Mass, hears confessions, baptizes, performs weddings. Yet his sympathies lie with a bold underground of heretics, Cathars who see the world as the realm of Satan and the church as a device of hell. The cleric actively supports these zealots who will neither touch women nor eat meat, men who preach heresy to his parishioners. At the same time he uses his powers of flattery and persuasion to seduce most of the nearby females, including a local noblewoman, the chatelaine, and his 14-year-old cousin. When the Inquisition comes to town...
...assorted ladies and gallants are all well done, though the tend to blend together as characters. David Eddy as Harcourt has one very funny sequence when disguised as a lisping cleric. Thomas Champion as Pinchwife starts a little slowly, but by the second act he warms to his role and becomes genuinely funny. Linda Cameron as Alithea and Lucy Stone McNeece suavely handle their parts, although Cameron could have injected a little more life into the admittedly flat part of Alithea. Even the various servants, played by Ralph Zito, Michael Miller and Andy Sellon are funny, particularly in the drinking...
...camera he may not seem the type, but on-camera Richard Burton cuts a fine figure as a priest. After playing a man of the cloth on a devilish mission in Exorcist II: The Heretic, Burton has once again put on his cleric's collar, in Absolution. This time he plays Father Goddard, an opinionated Jesuit priest at a Roman Catholic boys' school in England. Trouble arises when his favorite student tells him in confession that he has committed murder. To get away from such traumas, Burton likes to relax on the set by tossing a cricket ball...