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...itself was damned in another fashion. Cedric Richards resigned in protest from the parish council, hinting that the reason the company was allowed to "ride roughshod" was because it had bought off some of his fellow citizens. Beresford Worswick, a crusty fugitive from London, summoned the Royal Fine Art Commission to inspect the scene. The commission expressed regret that "a film company should have made alterations to an exceptional English village, instead of adopting the more acceptable practice of building a film set to represent an English village...
...think that I'd like being described as non-Protestant"). For her part, she hated the way Protestants frequently referred to her as a "Roman Catholic" with a strong emphasis on the Roman. For the benefit of Bettie Phillips, Mary explained why the chief priest of a parish is called the pastor; Bettie in turn explained to the Catholics how Presbyterians use the terms vestry and synod and why their principal statement of faith is called the Westminster Confession...
...press release put it, "Mr. Graham is not going to Soho to condemn, but to show his concern for all people." Indeed, Billy Graham, 47, aroused considerable concern when he showed up in London's fleshpotty parish. Swinging through a third week of his crusade in Blighty, the evangelist had planned an hour's walk through Soho, but a mob of 2,000 zealots swarmed all over him just across the way from the Old Compton Street Cinema (current attraction: Orgy at Lil's Place). A stripper named Brigitte St. John screamed: "Billy, what do you think...
...week Barcelona's aging (76) Archbishop Gregorio Modrego Casáus was doing his best to keep the lid on. Calling all publicity "harmful," he appealed to the press to forgo any further news or comment on the police attack; he also sent a bland message to his parish priests, to be read at Sunday Masses. Since the message virtually ignored the question of police brutality to clergymen, many priests added a few choice words of their own at the end. "One of our newspapers' slogans," snapped Father Narciso Saguer Vilar of San Ildefonso's Church...
...publicly denounced the "phony antiCommunism" of Joe McCarthy in 1954, Sheil is now 78 and subject to ailments (most recently a broken ankle) that have kept him from performing pastoral duties. Cody visited Sheil with the suggestion that he let a younger man take over financial administration of the parish. Sheil at first consented, but then told a newsman: "I didn't retire. This is a removal." Cody expressed his regret that the matter had been made public-and coolly named a new pastor of the parish...