Word: papally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the Stratford National Company of Canada must be attributed to a remarkable acting job by Hume Cronyn, just as Alex McGowan's tour de force "made" the show in London and on Broadway. Cronyn is superb, biting off bittersweet epithets, swivelling quickly, daintily crossing his legs on the Papal throne, as a long cigarette dangles from his fingers. Cronyn's determined effort to project nuance into Rolfe's fantasies generate an ironic tension. He makes Rolfe more interesting than the play might lead us to believe...
...were splendid, though Donald Ewer as Mr. Crowe's accomplice in blackmail burlesqued the role of Jeremiah Sant with a thick Irish accent. Liza Cole, Julie Andrews' mother in Hawaii, played the warm-hearted Agnes with unabashed charm. Her reward after the wildly sentimental scene with Hadrian in the Papal chambers was a well-deserved round of applause...
...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 (and nuns) from the service of the church since the Reformation...
...willing to discuss the possibility of ordaining a few elderly married laymen to the priesthood where pastoral necessity demands it. Alfrink and the bishops are encouraged by what a Dutch theologian calls an "opening in an eternal wall of 'No.' " It remains to be seen whether the papal concession will satisfy the progressives who dominate the Dutch church's lay and clerical ranks. But Alfrink remains hopeful that the hierarchy can avoid a split. "We all mean well, both here in Holland and in Rome," he says. "Somehow we are drifting apart, being ripped apart, even. But finally we shall...
...Sisters of Loretto. Ten years ago, "Sister J." became president of Webster College, a small Catholic women's school near St. Louis. From that unlikely platform, she crusaded for academic reform and feminism in roughly equal parts. In 1967, she astonished the religious world by getting a papal dispensation that released her from her vows and Rome's approval to secularize the college. Last June she left Webster as Miss Jacqueline Grennan and became vice president of New York's Academy for Educational Development, where she studied ways to expand independent study in U.S. colleges. She also...