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Some of the stories bordered on the inane. Hearst Headliner Bob Considine, appraising the large flock of reporters in the Holy Land, decided that covering the Big Story had "put an early dent in the budgets of the news media." But, he added philosophically, "that's show business." Columnist Jim (The Day Christ Died) Bishop stayed home, stitching together a fact sheet on Jesus and his relatives. The Lord's given name, Bishop reported solemnly, was Jeshua; he was probably born in the year 6 B.C. of a 15-year-old girl named Mary. With a touch...
...killed the boy! Killed the boy! Who could have saved us all. He was one of them, Billy; I am absolutely convinced He was one of them." During a service at the new Church of Christ, Astronaut, which Brown attends along the way, the preacher exhorts his flock to behave better or else: "When we get there, to the Kingdom Come Motel, there will be banners reading NO EARTHMEN NEED APPLY...
...Preminger has a penchant for grand and explosive themes: the establishment of the Jewish nation in Exodus, Washington politics in Advise and Consent, race in Porgy and Bess. Now he catechizes all the hopes, strains, doubts and pains of Roman Catholicism in one big, bad movie that millions will flock to see. Cardinal is the story, based on the late Henry Morton Robinson's 1950 bestseller, of a poor boy from Boston who rises through the priesthood to become a prince of the Roman Catholic Church. It is sure-sell religiosity...
...ministers than unfilled pulpits. For most pulpit committees, the problem is simply finding a capable administrator who can preach well. Churches that offer impressive material as well as spiritual benefits set their standards higher. Everybody seems to want a nondrinking, tolerant intellectual who does not talk down to his flock-a man who is not too young, not too old, who is interested in the choir, is good at raising money, and who has a charming but unobtrusive wife...
...what extent. Council progressives believed, as one American theologian put it, that "this council was called to abolish papolatry." But to council conservatives, collegiality means a sharp loss of power. Archbishop Dino Staffa, an official of the Roman Curia, contended that "supreme power over the entire flock of the faithful was entrusted to Peter and Peter alone." The implication is that such power was also entrusted to the Curia, which is responsible to the Pope and not to the bishops...