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With 90 per cent of Poles practising Catholics (more young people are going into the priesthood than ever before, and the vitality of religion is underlined by huge outdoor folk Masses and an incredible number of new church buildings), the Church's traditional role as a focus for national sentiment is being linked with that of a natural and legal focus for an alternative structure of allegiance to that of the Communist Party. While the pulpit remains uncensored, though priests sign human rights petitions and the Primate and his fellow bishops criticize the government on social issues, the regime...
...Brazilian villagers along the Amazon River; of injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident; in Columbus, Ohio. Tupper first witnessed the misery of South America's poor in 1960 as a U.S. Navy medic and soon dropped plans for a career in plastic surgery to join the priesthood. He first made his Amazonian rounds in a motorboat, but later ministered from a 55-ton refurbished ferryboat named the Esperanqa (Portuguese for Hope...
Writer Ostling states that "the most offensive tenet vanished" from the Mormon religion with the recent acceptance of black males to the priesthood. "Curiouser and curiouser," to quote Alice from her Wonderland. Just what is it that makes it more offensive to degrade black men than to degrade all women...
...Midwestern communities where raging mobs drove out the Mormons in the mid-19th century after Prophet Smith was shot to death. Despite the gesture, the church is adamantly opposed to the ERA or other concessions. Kimball states that unlike blacks, it is "impossible" that women would ever attain priesthood...
...those who are now living, Mormonism has been diligent and successful in spreading its message, with one vast exception: black Africa. The church could hardly have functioned there without anyone eligible for priesthood. Despite June's revelation, Kimball says careful consideration will be necessary before he dispatches the first mission teams in history to the area. But ultimately, Kimball has a broad vision: "The Saviour said, go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature, and that's what we have been working toward." The Mormons have a long way to go, but as a result...