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...their wives and homes. Not all bishops will even permit Cursillos in their dioceses. Critics of the movement also charge that the Cursillo relies on simplist theology and a fundamentalist approach to Scripture, tends to create prudish zealots who are convinced, like Moral Re-Armers, that they alone possess the real key to spiritual living...
...Tigers' win kept them in a three-way tie for the Ivy lead along with Penn and Yale. All possess 7-2 records. The Crimson (4-5) is firmly ensconced in fifth place, and has probably lost all chance of finishing in the first division for the first time since 1947 unless it can beat Cornell next weekend...
Feudal Chaos. The feudal chaos of special privileges is compounded by the fact that once most priests are installed in their parishes, they possess them for life as "parson's freeholds," and they cannot be budged except for heresy, grave crime or the promise of richer livings. As a result, about one-fifth of England's clergy gloom about in ghost parishes with a handful of communicants and faintly Trollopean titles. Another fifth can barely keep up with the man-killing spiritual work of fast-growing suburban parishes...
...admire Tillich's struggle with moral problems, even though his findings possess insuperable difficul- ties. It is hard indeed to imagine Being-Itself leading the chosen people out of Egypt. Likewise, it is difficult to believe that moral and physical laws are absolute in the same sense...
Washington's present position is that this must remain a U.S. responsibility. While the majority of Europeans might be willing to leave it at that, the Gaullist argument that in the 20th century only the possession of nuclear weapons can make a nation truly sovereign, simply will not die down. And sooner or later the Germans are bound to take it up, for the most powerful country in Europe, with a technical capacity probably greater than France's, cannot indefinitely be kept in the position of a second-class citizen without the nuclear rights its allies and neighbors...