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...most popular preacher in Paris is Jesuit Father Michel Riquet. "The French are better Christians today than they used to be," says Père Riquet. "There are more of them; they pray more and go more often to church...
Stout, stern-faced Jesuit Riquet seems to Parisians almost a one-man revival in himself. Each Sunday during Lent-even when the warm promise of spring brought crowds to the sidewalk cafés and the banks of the Seine-49-year-old Father Riquet filled the cold, damp, dark interior of Notre Dame to capacity with the power of his preaching...
Outside Notre Dame recently, a dignified, grey-haired civil engineer undertook to explain Father Riquet's success: "Voilà, at last a priest who makes sense. I don't care about his Jesuit politics, nor even about his soutane [cassock]. He represents something which we lack in France; he fills a gap because he is able to reconcile logic and faith...
...champions are usually so acknowledged). There was angry buzzing in the wings. Some experts thought that St. Louis University, winner of the rival National Invitation Tournament (TIME, March 29) had the better team. The question might have been decided in this week's Olympic basketball trials. But the Jesuit Fathers at St. Louis U. quietly announced that the team was through for the season: it was high time for the boys to get back to their schoolbooks...
Father Riccardo Lombardi's "Crusade of Love" (TIME, March 1) marched on. In Naples of the volatile south, as in Milan of the sober north, the impassioned exhortations of the pale little Jesuit reached hundreds of thousands...