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...Catholic, I must disagree with the statements of Santa Fe's Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne concerning the "pagan" act of kissing, etc. Further, no one has the right to restrict my smoking or my drinking. This is an invasion of private rights, unwarranted by anything in the Bible...
...attractive daughter. Three years ago when a young member of the local Communist Party made tentative matrimonial advances. Potential Father-in-Law Murah unhesitatingly tossed aside all his religious scruples to promote the match. He joined the party himself and, in utter defiance of Moslem law, allowed his new pagan comrades to build three small houses and a coffee shop for their own use within the mosque's walled grounds. The Moslem elders who had hired Pak Murah screamed "sacrilege.'' Pak Murah only sneered. The Moslems took the case to court...
...Meet the Pagan. Filmed in Hollywood at an annual cost of $750,000, Life begins each shooting session with a silent prayer. The primary purpose of each episode, says Dr. Gockel, is "to acquaint the public with the way of salvation, and that is only through repentance for sin and faith in Christ." After an actress approached him on the set with "What's this 'Jesus died for us' routine?", Dr. Gockel became even more convinced of the need to reach the nation's "unchurched," introduced a TV technique of "new and fresh phraseology" to express...
When a minister explains the meaning of atonement. Life has its sinner respond: "You mean that Christ took the rap for me?" Explains Dr. Gockel: "You have to meet the pagan where he is." Dr. Gockel allows none of his characters except the fallen to smoke, drink, or dance too close. (His definition of too close: "without space showing between the two bodies.") "But we never preach," he says. "We simply let the value of the Christian message demonstrate itself...
Another Roman Catholic blow at the held hand and the shared ice-cream soda (TIME, March 11) came last week when Santa Fe's Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne warned the 70,000 parochial-school children in his diocese against the "pagan" practices of "going steady, keeping steady company, necking and kissing." Warned the prelate: "Any boy or girl who persists will not be allowed to hold any position of honor in a school-and will be expelled, if necessary...