Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...points up a situation that is increasingly worrying to the Roman Catholic Church in Italy-the threadbare poverty of the priesthood. Many a country priest begs for his staples, and depends on the traditional Sunday dinner with a parishioner for his one decent meal of the week. Doing the pastor's laundry is a well-established parish chore. Priests in the south have been known to sleep in their churches for lack of lodgings, and some even make ends meet by operating movie halls or cafés as a sideline. In modern Italy, the priest who is trying...
...office to plunk down her $50, and has scarcely been heard from since. There is Harry Diehl, a Democrat, who took a leave of absence from his job as a clerk in a Houston supermarket and filed as "Harry Republican Diehl." There is a woman named Jonnie Mae Eckman, pastor of the House of Prayer in Brenham ("I do declare, now catch your breath, that I am the Christ prophesied of to come"); and one Delbert E. Grandstaff, whose chief distinction is that he is the father of Kathy Grant, in private life Mrs. Bing Crosby...
...CRISWELL of Dallas, pastor of the First Baptist Church, world's largest...
...story, written from case histories by Allan Sloane and ably directed by TV's Stuart Rosenberg, takes place in a small town in East Germany. As the film begins, the local pastor, hauled into court for a travesty of a trial, is sentenced to five years at hard labor. The new pastor (sensitively played by Michael Gwynn) arrives. At once an official campaign of petty harassment gets under way. When the congregation gathers to greet its new leader, the police perfunctorily break up the party; church buildings, the inspector coldly explains, are licensed for religious education, not for social...
...therefore, not the pastor but his teen-age son (Christian de Bresson) who principally suffers and must fundamentally resolve the crisis of the Christian conscience in a Communist society. The boy is a gifted pianist who longs to enter a conservatory, but to gain admission he must belie his religious beliefs when he replies to the crucial seventh question in a government questionnaire. The state. personified in a likable and persuasive young teacher, urges him to leave his father's "outworn ideas," join the new society: "We need music as well as bread and coal and houses." Against this...