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...Gertrude Wilkinson last week in Woodstock, Md., where representatives from 57 women's contemplative communities in the U.S. and Canada were meeting to discuss mutual problems. "We are becoming more conscious of the sufferings, problems and joys of the world," she explained. "If you know what you are praying for, you pray with greater fervor...
...striking example of the contemplative in a modern situation is provided by the "Convent of Atonement," founded four years ago at Dachau. The building itself is prisonlike, but only to preserve the grim atmosphere of the demolished concentration camp that once stood near by. Inside, twelve Carmelite nuns pray almost continuously for the souls of all who were martyred at Dachau. They are, in fact, a part of the Dachau tour-"a permanent witness to the crimes there," says Mother Gemma, the convent's superior...
...church, its canon law, or its need for norms in the liturgy and the life of the people." Indeed, Shannon said, he had written to Pope Paul VI to assure him that "I will try by my life style, with my wife, who shares my deep Christian views, to pray and work for the renewal of the church." Perhaps, he suggested, he might even find a place in the church eventually, if it "permits a married clergy within our lifetime...
...burned in 1942 in occupied Kiev, under Hitler, and now it has pleased God to let me know in my lifetime that my own books are being burned. Because now that I have left the Soviet Union, my books will, of course, be destroyed there too. In fact, I pray that my published works should be destroyed down to the very last one. Since they are not what I actually wrote and wanted to say to my readers, that means, after all, that they are not my books! I disassociate myself from them...
Almost alone in the world, the main land Chinese press virtually ignored the moon landing, though one Hong Kong Communist daily headlined: THE AMERICAN PEOPLE PRAY: GOD GIVE ME A PIECE OF BREAD, DON'T GIVE ME THE MOON. On the other hand, Italy's Paese Sera, the unofficial Communist evening paper, devoted twelve pages to Apollo and ran a complimentary picture of Richard Nixon. In Paris, even the Communist paper L'Humanite called the moon walk a "dream from the depths of time realized"-although it managed to keep the words United States and American...