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Spiritually, he saw the priesthood as a sacramental office rather than a hortatory one. Emotionally, the conversion of some of his closest friends and the lengthening roll of classmates dying in World War I stirred him deeply. He was struck when a fellow cleric was refused an army chaplaincy on being asked what he would do for a dying man and answering "Hear his confession and give him absolution." The correct military answer was: "Give him a cigarette and take any last message he may have for his family." In the spring of 1915 Knox drew up 31 propositions...
Jazz Sermon. Somehow, the shock is not shocking. The evil act. which should dominate the book, is not made really believable. The last chapters of the novel have the faintly embarrassing tone of a sermon in jazz language attempted by an overearnest cleric. The tormented murderer asks: "Why is it that if we could all learn to play together the way we did-why is it we couldn't learn to live together?" The narrator's sanctimonious reply: "Woody, if we could-even between us-answer that simple question-seemingly simple-we could turn this into...
...enthusiasm and imagination made a great impression on us at Lambeth," said a top British cleric this week. "Archbishop of Canterbury Fisher has been a bit conservative, perhaps, in his approach to TV and other 20th century methods of mass communication. Bayne is from the New World; he is young and wants to grapple in a modern manner with the problems facing the church today. He wants to see that we don't go on plodding along the road we have always been plodding along. There's been a lot of fluttering in the dovecots over Bayne...
Carpenters & Tailors. From the earth's four corners the cardinals came, each with his two "conclavists"-usually a fellow cleric and a layman-who are permitted to accompany cardinals into the conclave enclosure as aides. Only two cardinals are expected to be absent when the conclave begins this week. Both Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac, Primate of Yugoslavia, and Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, Primate of Hungary, will stay away from Rome for the same good reason: Stepinac is under house arrest, Mindszenty a refugee in the U.S. legation in Budapest. And even if they could get to Rome, their governments would deny...
Last week Italy's influential clerical weekly Palestra del Clero pointed out that the original decree provided a loophole for just such discretionary application. The Pope spoke of those who became Communists scienter and libere-with full knowledge and full freedom of choice. "These two adverbs, if fully understood." said Palestra, "prevent any excessive rigor in the application of what the decree lays down ... It is evidently up to the cleric in each individual case to distinguish between true willful Communists and those who are victims of illusion, hence of ignorance; between those who have freely chosen to belong...