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Inevitably, a shower of bullets fell on the innocent. A parish priest was killed in a crossfire just after he administered the last rites to a man he thought was dying; the man survived to tell the story. On a Belfast street a young man, one of 13 children of an unemployed laborer, wept uncontrollably as he told his sister: "They say Dad's dead; they say he's in the morgue...
Despite the fears of the law's opponents, the expected avalanche of divorce petitions has not materialized. Costs are high (anywhere from $350 to $1,000), grounds for divorce are limited, and court procedures ponderous. Some judges have been accused of deliberately stalling cases, and some parish priests have been taking unconscionably long in furnishing documents to would-be divorcees, making it impossible for them to untie the knot. Aside from a few celebrities such as Vittorio De Sica, Maria Callas and Catherine Spaak, those who do go through the struggle in the courts are usually middle-class people...
...Jaroszewicz, "is man and his needs." >Ended a 25-year dispute between the party and the Catholic Church-to which 95% of Poland's 32.5 million people have at least nominal allegiance -by granting the Polish church full title to 4,700 chapels and churches and 2,200 parish buildings in the territories taken from Germany after World War II. The move pleased Poland's powerful Stephan Cardinal Wyszynski, who until now has been cool to the new leader's overtures...
...thing of awe, the Catholic parish pastor-a force as redoubtable and durable as a Southern Democrat in the U.S. Senate. He was a marvelous blend of Barry Fitzgerald and Boss Tweed: irascible conscience of the stingy, puckish doer of good deeds among the neighborhood's fallen. He was absolute ruler of his realm, certain that parishioners who might doubt the Pope's infallibility would never for a minute dare question...
...strongholds, New York City. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York-the first in the U.S. formally to do so-announced this month that pastors will henceforth serve for fixed terms of six years, and that none can serve more than two terms in the same parish. Progressives hailed the change, noting that it would allow younger priests to move up more quickly to pastoral positions and give older pastors an honorable excuse for moving on. But Barry Fitzgerald must be spinning in his grave...