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Dutch bishops began publishing a new adult catechism, suspect in Rome because it sidestepped such teachings as the Virgin birth. Ecumenically minded parishes countenanced intercommunion with Protestants. Priests who quit to get married were retained on seminary faculties or continued, without episcopal approval, to function as parish ministers. Laymen and women began to carry out almost all tasks formerly reserved for priests. At a national meeting, Catholic delegates openly derided Vatican policy on priestly celibacy and birth control. Private confession virtually disappeared. There was even talk of breaking away from Rome, as England did under Henry VIII...
...church is often regarded by liberals elsewhere as a "pluriform" pattern of the future. If so, it may be a future minus a priesthood. Opposition to celibacy and the Vatican runs so deep that only 15 seminarians sought ordination in Holland in 1978. There are only 2,900 active parish priests left, compared with 4,175 at the close of Vatican...
...list of heroes is a long one. Among them are the father of the dead boy, whose pleas for "no retaliation" set the tone for a week of complete calm, Father George Vartselis of East Cambridge's Sacred Heart Parish, who prayed with and led his community, and the school administration, which took a deep breath after the tragedy and set purposefully to work at the job of reopening the school...
When Pressler was beginning his candidacy, a reporter asked South Dakota Republican Chairman Dan Parish what he thought. Said Parish: "I can sum it up in three words-ha, ha, ha." But the junior Senator from South Dakota does not think his candidacy is a joke. "When I ran for Congress in 1974,1 started with one volunteer. But I ran an idealistic campaign and stayed with the issues. Some day, and maybe it won't be me, someone will run an idealistic presidential campaign based on the issues...
...bishop was never to get a Cardinal's red hat. In 1957 Sheen abruptly gave up his TV shows. At age 71, he became a controversial innovator as Bishop of Rochester. Known till then as a conservative, he put a civil rights activist on his staff, let parish priests elect his top aide and "taxed" church construction projects to help the poor. In 1967 he called on President Johnson to withdraw all troops from Viet Nam. But when he tried to sell a church and give the money to the poor without consulting the parishioners, he was forced...