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...dangled grotesquely from trees, protruded from shoals, or were wedged into crevices high up on the canyon wall. But the waters had hidden corpses everywhere. Others were found in corn-and hayfields near Loveland, eight miles beyond the canyon's mouth. One body was carried 25 miles to Greeley. At week's end the death total was nearing 100. But, incredibly, more than 800 people were still missing six days after the flood-the most graphic illustration of the power of the water that had cascaded down from the mountains...
...Thompson. When the water began to rise, Helen Hill, who is in her mid-fifties, scrambled to a perch five limbs up on a ponderosa pine and later that night watched the flood in a series of flickering still lifes illuminated by lightning. "I saw poor Mrs. Greeley-84, she is-go down the river. And I could hear the cabins around us go. They sounded like the lid of a wooden apple box being pried...
...Greeley calls the past church false security; I called it a rock...
...question puzzling most thinking Catholics today is not "How long will the church endure?" but "How long will the church endure Andrew Greeley...
...bishops. Time was when decrees of the Pontiff or the hierarchy on any issue were obediently accepted by Catholic Americans, as if they were the laws of God. No longer. In matters of faith as well as morals, Catholics seem to be making up their own minds. The Greeley study, for example, shows that only 37% of U.S. Catholics fully accept the doctrine of the infallibility of the Pope-a dogma solemnly defined by the First Vatican Council...