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...GUIN SÉGUIN, Dominican friar and theologian: "I asked her what tongue her voice spoke, and she answered, 'A better tongue than you do.' And I asked her again whether she believed in God. She answered, 'Yes, more than...
...title refers to the legendary Seven Cities of Cibola, reputedly paved with gold, and the film begins as a Spanish expedition, led by Captain Gasper Portola (Anthony Quinn) and Lieut. José Mendoza (Richard Egan), forks horse and clatters away to find them. Friar Serra (Michael Rennie) goes along as chaplain of the band, hoping to found missions among the California Indians...
...churches became a focus for piety and anger. Inside Santo Domingo, a priest said Mass at an altar improvised of boxes and boards placed in front of a cross made of two charred timbers wired together and planted in a heap of rubble. At San Ignacio, a brown-robed friar carefully set back on its feet an image of San Benito de Palermo, whose day it was. "Not even in Russia did they do this," he said. "They hanged priests, but they did not destroy the churches." In San Miguel lay partly burned church records...
More serious damage results from some horse-opera touches near the end of the film. After Romeo's return to Verona, Castellani indulges in some Hitchcock camera work on the theme, "Will Romeo run into Friar Laurence, thus saving the day?" Laurence, of course, wanders out the back door of the cathedral just as Romeo arrives at the front. There is a good deal more puffing and groaning than necessary, too, while Romeo forces his way into the vault with a broken candlestick which he had to run all the way back to the church...
...before a mountain of toys and candy-crammed paper bags, workers of the Catholic Youth Organization would labor happily to distribute presents and keep order. And in the middle of the maelstrom would move the founder and father of C.Y.O., The Most Rev. Bernard J. Sheil-a firm-faced Friar Tuck kneeling nimbly beside the toddlers, leading other children by the hand, talking to twelve-year-olds with the dignity becoming their years. To Bishop Sheil, the C.Y.O. Christmas Party was a symbol of his life and work-cheerful, practical action among the big-city poor...