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...once studied theology at Strasbourg and Paris but decided he did not have a vocation to the priesthood. Now a marriage counselor, he is married, has two children and is a driving force behind the international expansion of the diaconate. A deacon since 1970, Schaller has made his "parish" a newly built quarter on the periphery of Lyons. There he is president of a tenants' union, which defends renters in disputes with landlords. He also performs marriages and baptisms for anticlerical couples who resent the presence of priests but are willing to accept the new deacons...
Economic exploitation forces Nathan Lee to steal from the white man's smokehouse to find his family. His arrest gives Ritt the chance to show the kangaroo justice blacks receive in white courts. After a speedy trial, Nathan lee is sentenced to one year of hard labor at a parish workcamp, a form of modern slavery only slightly more obvious than the scrip my grandfather was advanced...
...gentle, anguished message read from Toulouse pulpits, Guyot said, "I wish I could remain silent," but reluctantly stated that priests who violate their vows of celibacy must consider themselves "relieved of their priestly functions." Thereupon, Forestier resigned, together with six of his colleagues in the working-class parish of St. Francis Xavier; the seven posted a statement of solidarity on their parish-house door. Though Forestier's comrades were somewhat embarrassed by the fact that the couple had scorned a civil marriage ceremony, they accepted the union as a genuine marriage. To deny any man the right to marry...
...Southern French industrial city of Toulouse has for years enjoyed a warm relationship between its left-leaning worker-priests and its liberal archbishop. Last week the alliance was severely ruptured, as six priests and a nun resigned their parish offices. The issue: celibacy. The occasion: the disciplining of a brother priest, Bernard Forestier, 29, for living with a young social worker named Cecile...
About two-thirds of the students had left the building when the victims fell, according to East Baton Rouge Parish Deputy Sheriff Harry Phillips...