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...gripped Europe as the Nazis began retreating are suggested in a single sentence: "When a war ends one forgets how much older oneself and the world have become: it needs something like a piece of furniture or a woman's hat to waken the sense of time." A simple parish priest delivers a worldly homily: "All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow...
...reset button and start again: in Mamou, in Evangeline Parish, in Louisiana's Cajun country, they celebrated Mardi Gras last week on horseback, on the dance floor and belly up in the ditches. The celebration lacked the formality and the aristocracy, whatever that is, of the carnival in New Orleans, but it may have surpassed the Crescent City in madness (you may have the hang of it here...
...kind of electronic music that bright young conservatory professors are putting together with computers and tapes. To an outsider it was fine and enjoyable; to the Dead Heads it was a rare peak of brilliance. Most of the audience knew that the wife and baby of Veteran Roadie Steve Parish had been killed two days before in an auto accident, and they assumed that the performance was a special effort, a memorial. But the Dead are always private; no announcement was made. At 2:15 a.m., Garcia sang the last song, an elegiac Bob Dylan tune that ends with...
...Peru, a diminutive parish priest chooses his words carefully as he discusses the controversy over his writings that virtually paralyzed the deliberations of his country's 54-member Episcopal Conference for 13 months. Father Gustavo Gutierrez, 56, is a psychologist and author of the 1971 seminal work A Theology of Liberation, which critics have said is imbued with Marxist concepts. Says Gutierrez: "I preach the gospel, nothing else...
...American women have publicly declared their ambitions to become priests, and some of them plan to gather later this year to discuss their goal. "The people who feel some kind of call have an obligation to witness to that call," says Kathy Larson, director of religious education at a parish in Roswell, N. Mex. She has wanted to be a priest since childhood. She worked at an Episcopal church but felt thwarted: "I know in my bones that I am a Catholic, and I always will be. I feel that I have an obligation to witness within my own church...