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...White-robed, ascetic-looking Father Couturier, 51, his tonsure sharply outlined against his close-cropped head, his brown eyes bright with his own soaring imagination, has become the light and power of a small but significant movement among French artists. From the first, his primary concern has been to preach and minister to men. But in his spare time he has devoted his energies tirelessly to visiting the studios of artists everywhere and telling them that the Church is where their work belongs. In addition he founded, twelve years ago, the little magazine L'Art Sacrée, which...
Nobody knows exactly why Moscow jams Voice of America broadcasts, yet permits the Russians to listen freely to the voice of Amerika. But Editor Sanders has a hunch. Says she: "We never preach, brag, quarrel or draw invidious comparison^ Ours is not a frontal attack; it is a loYig-range campaign." The campaign's major objective: to cast on Russian minds at least the shadow of a doubt about Communism's superiority. Recently Pravda and Izvestia assailed Amerika. Says Editor Sanders happily: "That means we must be getting read...
Island Prayer. Among the many dialects of the islands, pastors and teachers mainly use pidgin English to preach the Gospel. Even Western Christians may find their own familiar words and phrases spring to new life in pidgin's sharp-cut images. Pastor Salau demonstrated with the Lord's Prayer...
Hispanidad is a curious, almost indefinable doctrine. Its present-day adherents preach that only by a spiritual union of the New World's Spanish-speaking countries with Roman Catholic Mother Spain can mankind be saved from godless Communists and heretical Anglo-Saxons. In Argentina, where the Peron regime until recently made much of its close kinship with Spain, the doctrine has won many a convert. But last week, hard on the heels of the failure of Argentina's trade agreement with Spain (TIME, April 25), a distinguished Argentine cleric was calling Hispanidad a lot of nonsense...
...reveal the unhappy fact that Father Feeney has been defying the orders of his legitimate superiors for more than seven months and since Jan. 1 of this year has not possessed the faculties of this archdiocese." In plainer words, Father Feeney had been denied the right to preach or hear confessions. Last week Archbishop Gushing further decreed that Father Feeney could perform no priestly functions, e.g., saying Mass, teaching religion. He also forbade any Roman Catholic to visit or assist in the activities of Feeney's G.H.Q. -St. Benedict Center on Cambridge's Arrow Street...