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Father Grégoire Lemercier, prior of St. Mary of the Resurrection monastery near Cuernavaca, Mexico, believes that psychoanalysis is good for the soul-especially the soul of the monk. Convinced that too many men enter the cloister out of fear of the world or from a sense of sexual inadequacy, Benedictine Lemercier five years ago encouraged the monks and postulants at St. Mary's to undertake group-therapy sessions. As a result, 40 of them decided that they did not have a true vocation and left, but Lemercier is sure that St. Mary's is the better...
...candid volume of confessions called Dialogues with Christ, recently j published in Paris, Lemercier tells of the I Cuernavaca experiment. A Belgian, I Lemercier went to Mexico in 1944, intending to found a monastery with two other men. Both his companions quit, disillusioned with monastic life; in 1949, one of them came back at the head of a gang of pistoleros to destroy the monastery-although neither Lemercier nor the few monks who had joined him there were harmed...
...experiment in group therapy was approved by Cuernavaca's Bishop Sergio Méndez Arceo. Alarmed by Lemercier's innovation, the Vatican sent several investigators to Cuernavaca, and last year Lemercier went to Rome to explain the results to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He is still there, and in response to his pleas, Pope Paul has appointed a commission of three cardinals to review his case-and, in effect, the broad question of whether psychotherapy is a proper means of helping a man decide whether he is truly called to the monastic life...
...lady crackled, "To hell with the money. I want my husband's jewels back." Since she scarcely counts all her fives and dimes, Woolworth Heiress Barbara Mutton, 53, could afford to be cavalier about the cash. Anyway, the thieves who broke into her $1,500,000 mansion near Cuernavaca, Mexico, took only $20,240-and most of that was in traveler's checks. What burned Babs was that they footpadded off with the "irreplaceable" jewel collection of her seventh husband, Laotian Prince Raymond Doan Vinh Na Champassak. The princess felt so sentimental about the necklace with the gold...
...Forest. Under the Volcano was rejected by twelve New York publishers before it finally appeared in 1947. On the surface, it tells the story of Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic and almost derelict British consul in a town strongly resembling Cuernavaca, where Lowry himself lived for two years. However, its subterranean reputation continued to grow until it is now taught in college courses on the modern novel...