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...million people in Britain, more than 27 million have been baptized in the Church of England, but fewer than 10 million have been confirmed, and fewer than 3,000,000 are registered on parish rolls. If these facts might seem to argue that the church should win back its flock, the newest Archbishop of Canterbury, on his enthronement last week, made no sign that he will attempt to spoon-feed religion or pretend that Christianity is another kind of tranquilizer. Arthur Michael Ramsey, a man with a single-minded devotion to God,* made clear that...
...around him, fumbling in his robes for his spectacles and his handkerchief. Carefully he cleaned each lens, placed the glasses on his nose, and wiped a drop of moisture from the palm of one hand. Then he began in fluting tones to preach for the first time to a flock that is noted in all Christendom for its indifference to the church...
...climax of the evening came in true Sukarno style. A flock of pretty Indonesian girls he had brought with him to Moscow in his chartered U.S. jet rushed up and kissed the top Soviet leaders. Sukarno then demanded to be kissed in return by a Russian girl. Resourcefully, Nina Khrushchev walked into the crowd of lower-ranking guests and spied a pretty girl. "Are you Russian?" she asked. "Yes." said the girl. "Then come and kiss President Sukarno," commanded Nina. The girl said no, she did not want to. Her husband said he did not want her to. But Nina...
...people in his France-sized diocese. "This is one of the most backward areas in the world," says "River Bishop" Ryan. "I am trying to show the Amazon peoples that God, at least, has not forgotten them." In the process, Dom Tiago, as most of his flock calls him, has contracted malaria six times and learned to relish monkey meat: "It tastes like chicken, if you shut your eyes...
...Mort Sahl takes as jaundiced a view of The New Frontier (Reprise) as he did of the old. He rakes Bobby Kennedy ("Little Brother is watching you"), Father Joe and Son Jack ("Judge Hardy and Andy"), and the crowds that flock to see Jack Kennedy every Sunday morning: "One of the disadvantages of his new job is that he has to get up and go to church." Kennedy's sponsored television broadcasts, says Sahl, put him into a peculiar predicament. "May I mention the United States?" the President asks his toothpaste sponsor. "No. That's a plug." Idly...