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...defendants and two other witnesses testified under oath that they heard Graham say at the earlier District Court trial. "People were speaking in a level tone of voice louder than a whisper but less than a shout, but at that hour even a whisper disturbs the peace...
...Vatican last week announced that all Catholic priests would henceforth be asked to make an annual public affirmation of their vows of celibacy and obedience. The day chosen for this oath was Holy Thursday?the feast day that, in Roman Catholic theology, commemorates Christ's founding of the priesthood. Obliquely, the decree was yet another negative answer from Rome to the Dutch Pastoral Council (TIME, Jan. 19), which last month advocated optional celibacy for priests. On a deeper level, the proposal was a nervous, defensive papal response to a more enduring crisis: the most notable mass defection of priests...
...Publication Board's decision to award his group the current HARBUS franchise. This statement is absurd. As a member of the Publications Board during the period when the current franchise was let and one who participated in all board discussions concerning that decision. I will swear under oath that Mr. Stevens' color had nothing whatsoever to do with the matter...
...time is wartime, any time. Specifically it is the day before yesterday, during the Korean conflict. Somewhere outside Seoul, a group of Army doctors operate -in every sense of the word. Whatever rationality they possess is consumed by the disciplines of surgery. Off-duty they live by a hypocritic oath...
...were chosen from among 365 who were executed between the reign of Henry VIII and the rule of Cromwell, under the Act of Supremacy of 1534. The act made it high treason to refuse the oath that accepted the King as supreme head of the Church of England, to go abroad and return as an ordained Catholic priest, or even to harbor a priest. Since no Catholic priest could be ordained in England, a steady flow of young Englishmen left the country for The Netherlands. They returned as priests in disguise to visit among known Catholic homes called "Mass houses...