Word: edward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SP/4) EDWARD...
...Married. Edward J. Sponga, 50, No. 1 Jesuit priest of Maryland Province; and Mary Ellen Barrett, 33, a divorced nurse (see RELIGION...
Until recently, controversy on TV was considered as offensive as dead air. Sponsors would not have it, and neither would the viewers - or so it was supposed. Only a few commentators with clout, including Edward R. Murrow and Eric Sevareid, could get away with expressing sharp personal opinion. And certainly nobody succeeded with blatantly risque humor. This past season, the Smothers Brothers, Rowan and Martin, and Johnny Carson, among others, have waged a deliberate campaign to get sex jokes past the censor - whom Carson sardonically calls "Miss Priscilla Goodbody." But it is in the realm of serious discussion that television...
...head of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus, which extends from North Carolina to Ohio, the Very Rev. Edward J. Sponga, 50, was, in effect, the Jesuit equivalent of a bishop. Last week Father Sponga quietly abandoned his vow of celibacy to marry Mary Ellen Barrett, 33, a nurse at a Roman Catholic hospital in the Philadelphia suburb of Darby, Pa., and the divorced mother of three children. In so doing, he became the highest ranking ecclesiastic of the 350 or so priests who have left the Catholic Church in the U.S. within the last two years...
...like, no matter what the evidence. A new trial was then held, with a larger jury. If the new jury agreed with the judge, the original jurors could '"themselves be imprisoned and their wives and children thrust out of doors." That highhanded custom ended in 1670, when Edward Bushell and his fellow London jurors stubbornly refused to find Quakers William Penn and William Mead guilty of preaching to an unlawful assembly. The jurors were jailed, but at their subsequent trial they established the right to differ with the judge without incurring punishment...