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...operatic mainstay series, The Answer, have cooperated with NBC to produce a spectacular life of St. Paul and a recreation of Biblical history called The Inheritance that drew more than 10,000 letters. Next year NBC and the Baptists will offer a major life of Christ. The Roman Catholic Paulist Fathers' Insight presents adult melodrama in half-hour playlets about abortion, divorce and alcoholism, featuring such stars as Raymond Massey, Vera Miles and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. NBC's The Catholic Hour is offering a four-part series on the Second Vatican Council and the future of church renewal...
...told of a critically ill boy who asked to see his father. The plot focused on the search for the man, a stevedore who had walked out on his family the year before, and ended with a tearful reconciliation and some moralistic repentance by Pop. Insight's producer, Paulist Father Ellwood Kieser, charges that much religious programming is marred by "superficial ideology," "shallow psychology," and-he cannot resist the pun-excessive reliance on the deus ex machina...
Three civil rights organizations will sponsor a teach-in on the theme "Bussing Is Not the Issue," at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Paulist Center at 5 Park St. in Boston, the Rev. Richard E. Mumma, Presbyterian member of the United Ministry at Harvard and Radcliffe, announced last night...
...quality and character of the order varies considerably from province to province. The Jesuits of Colombia, for example, are extremely conservative, while in France the order remains radical and progressive-spirited. Man for man, the 8,600 U.S. Jesuits probably have less influence than the 261 communications-minded Paulist fathers. With few vocations to bring in new blood, the society in Italy, says one U.S. Jesuit, is in "terrible shape"; he describes the Roman province as a "museum piece...
...meeting, sponsored by West Germany's Paulist Society for Christian lay men, included such topnotch theologians as Jesuit Karl Rahner and Herbert Vorgrimler of Freiburg as well as three observers from a new Vatican secretariat for nonbelievers, which is headed by Franziskus Cardinal Konig of Vienna. The major Communist speakers were French Party Theoretician Roger Garaudy and one of Bulgaria's ranking ideologues, Asari Polikarov...