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...against. He tried to avoid a showdown with this sallow, unsmiling man. "I do not want steps taken against Stepinac," he is reported to have said afterward. "He has a martyr complex." But the outspoken archbishop was getting to be too much of a hero; people began to kneel as he passed on his daily walks through Zagreb...
...story casts French Actor Michel Simon as an old, overstuffed priest. A village washerwoman (Sylvie) tells him that she is 62, tired and alone. For uncounted years she has turned out every morning at 5 to kneel washing clothes until dark, stopping only for a little bread and oil. Would the father and the church now mercifully grant her leave to take her own life? Another story is a screen version of Novelist Alberto Moravia's II Pupo. A straitened young couple have had one baby too many. They try to abandon it in a church, but it cries...
...symptom of the growing Protestant shift from services and sermons to personal pastoral care. "We do not emphasize the form," says one pastor. "It must not become a routine." Many ministers hear confessions in their offices, others in the sacristy of the church. Often, pastor and penitent kneel side by side, their eyes on the cross...
...Exodus 12:6). Fathers will mark the foreheads of their first-born sons with blood. The priests will hand around bitter herbs and unleavened bread. The slaughtered lambs will be cooked. Facing the summit of the mountain, the priests will chant with mounting fervor as the Samaritans squat or kneel on the ground, wearing wide cloth belts and holding wooden staves-"and thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord's passover...
...give generously to the Needy. Private enterprise and private philanthropy will go hand in hand towards a Better America. And after mailing in your check, please kneel down with all the Harry U.'s and Mrs. Yetta G.'s and the seven N. children and pray to God that the "spender-wing of the Democratic party" will never succeed in disrupting that delicate mechanism which moves us towards the glory land. God bless you and keep you, Phillip K. And be of good cheer, Mrs. Martha T. Merry Christmas, Dwight...