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When Jim Sloan, 23, returned to Harvard after service as an Army sergeant in Viet Nam, he was laughingly labeled "the resident fascist pig of Adams House." Richard Parish, 22, was an Air Cav rifleman when a chunk of Communist shrapnel ripped his right shoulder to the joint; back in Michigan as a civilian, the Negro high school graduate was unable to pass physical examinations at either Cadillac Motors or Detroit Edison, and reluctantly began drawing disability pay. First Lieut. Leo Glover, 26, won a Silver Star and a Purple Heart near the DMZ as a Marine air controller, then...
...Sloan, Parish and Glover are three of some 1,700,000 veterans who have made the painful transition from service to civilian life since the Viet Nam war became a major military effort in 1964. This year, at least 900,000 more will muster out-all of them to face an adjustment problem unique among U.S. war vets. The men who fought in World Wars I and II and Korea found gratitude and the traditional heroes' welcome awaiting them at home; the Vietvet returns with no fanfare to a nation whose response ranges from a noncommittal...
...example, it helps to have studied at the North American College; about one-fourth of the American hierarchy graduated from the Roman seminary. The path to promotion is also smoother for priests with a talent for chancery administration and charity work than for theologians or parish pastors. Serving an archbishop with considerable influence in Rome helps; at least 25 of Spellman's former assistants have been elevated to the rank of bishop. During the nine years that Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi-a notoriously conservative ecclesiastic-was apostolic delegate to the U.S., it did not pay for a priest to have...
...spiritual leaders with real pastoral qualities. Aware that the system needs updating, the U.S. hierarchy last April agreed to set up a special commission that would screen candidates proposed by all bishops. Some U.S. bishops-among them Bishop Clarence Issenmann of Cleveland-have begun to invite recommendations from parish priests and trusted laymen. "The Catholic Church finds herself to day in the midst of the gravest crisis since the Protestant revolt," warns Msgr. John Tracy Ellis, professor of church history at the University of San Francisco. "It is imperative that those chosen to lead the people of God should represent...
...week had not begun auspiciously. Seeking spiritual solace at Bruton Parish in Colonial Williamsburg, the historic Virginia town restored to Revolutionary-era authenticity by the Rockefeller family, Johnson heard a sermon on Viet Nam instead. "There is rather general consensus that what we are doing in Viet Nam is wrong," lectured Rector Cotesworth Pinckney Lewis as the President sat captive in a front pew that had once been occupied by George Washington. "While pledging our loyalty, we ask humbly...