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While Reporter Piser's singing might not bring critical acclaim, his Latin is hard to fault. A native of Detroit, Piser, 31, studied for the priesthood and taught Latin at a boys' prep school before he turned to journalism. When he interviewed the Pope for this week's cover story, they conversed in Italian, and got along very well. Pope John inquired about Piser's family (he and his wife Susan have an eleven-month old daughter), and when the reporter remarked that he would like to have ten children, His Holiness launched into a warm...
Newly emphasizing the authority of the Bible, Catholics freely borrow from the best in Protestant scriptural scholarship. In theology, there has been a renewed appreciation for a doctrine dear to Luther's heart: the concept of the priesthood of all believers. Catholic moralists now pay full respect to the right of the individual conscience before God. Barriers that to Protestants seem almost insurmountable remain-notably the Marian emphasis of Catholicism, and the supremacy of the Pope-but Küng asks: "If Martin Luther had lived in the Catholic Church of today, what course would he have followed...
Down to Death. Brigham Young, the dynamic, much-married second head of the church, condemned Negroes, as descendants of Cain, to a heavenly waiting line: "They will go down to death. And when all the rest of the children have received their blessings in the holy priesthood, then the curse will be removed from the seed of Cain, and they will come up and possess the priesthood...
...that I've ever seen." Democratic Governor John Swainson rebuked Scholle, and reminded the public that he himself had been until World War II a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, an offshoot of the Mormon Church that admits Negroes to its priesthood. "I want to see the discussion of religion eliminated as a campaign matter," said Swainson, who is now a Lutheran...
...affairs (present population: 330,000, of whom 98% are Catholic). But in recent times, as last week's elections again demonstrated, the church's influence has been challenged sharply by the Maltese Labor Party and its leader, Dom Mintoff, a Rhodes scholar who once studied for the priesthood...