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...feeling of having betrayed Christ. Things are more civilized now. Patrick Best, a Detroit priest who left last May and has gone back to school, boasts that "my congregation even gave me a couple of going-away parties." George Frein, a St. Louis priest who married an ex-nun in June, has been hired by Archbishop Leo F. Dworschak to teach religious studies in North Dakota. "There has been no hostility at all," says Frein. "The weekend we arrived the pastor stopped over in his golf clothes and welcomed...
...classic notion that nothing is more arousing than violation of what is most sacred. Thus he has turned out a pair of dresses that are outraging some people (especially the devout) while delighting others. The designs, now being sold through the Paraphernalia boutique chain: a miniskirted version of a nun's habit and an equally abbreviated copy of a belted monk's robe, both with hoods that can be removed to reveal scooped necklines...
...Should a nun be allowed to kick her religious habit and appear publicly in skirt and blouse? Yes, decided Los Angeles' progressive-minded Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, who last fall made a number of reforms in their way of life, including the right to wear civilian dress. Although other Roman Catholic orders have modified or dropped their habits without any trouble, none of the changes seemed to please Los Angeles' James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre. He threatened to dismiss the sisters from their teaching posts in parochial schools of his archdiocese. The nuns promptly appealed...
Such soul-searching has already brought some changes. Some previously scheduled rerun episodes of I Spy, Gunsmoke, Big Valley and even Flying Nun,* among others, were postponed-but not dropped-in favor of less brutal installments. On the West Coast, where next season's shows are already in the works, two It Takes a Thief scripts involving assassination have just been chucked. Alan Armor of CBS's new western, Lancer, has edited out one shooting and one ambush from his premiere show, and the producers of Gunsmoke, Get Smart and The Name of the Game have ordered...
...soon to make his debut in a new TV series, The Land of Giants; Squirt, the handsome young cheetah, now co-starring in Sweet Charity with Shirley Mac-Laine; Tullia, a brand-new cat star at Universal; Rott, the dog who made a name for himself in The Flying Nun; Scruffy, another dog certainly destined for stardom next fall on NBC's The Ghost and Mrs. Muir...