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...cure diseases of which they know less, into human beings of whom they know nothing." George Bernard Shaw gibed that doctors score only triumphs, since their mistakes are always buried. Over the ages, doctors have compounded both the awe and the anxiety by acting as a self-anointed priesthood whose rites and methods (complete with prescriptions in Latin) were beyond the understanding of any outsider. Even today, physicians are a powerful and self-protective group that bridles at criticism, maintains an arcane authority by telling the patient as little as possible and thus, of course, provides little basis on which...
...John's Seminary: "I have reached with weary steps and a heavy heart the evening of my life. I pray that with God's help I shall be able to finish the journey in accordance with his divine will." Going on 50 years in the priesthood, New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, 76, felt tired as well. "I don't know if I can keep going on much longer," he said at a Catholic charities communion breakfast. But then he laughed: "I will keep going as long as I can, even if I need a derrick...
...Reorganized Saints do not call themselves Mormons, and differ with the Utah church on a number of doctrinal issues. They have never practiced polygamy, and admit Negroes to the priesthood-although only a few hundred belong to the church. Both churches accept the Book of Mormon as inspired scripture along with the Bible, and both believe that God provides continuous revelation through the church President. Last week Wallace Smith told the 20,000 delegates and visitors at Independence that his newest guidance calls for a replacement of certain officers in the hierarchy and for an expanded new program of evangelism...
Putts on the Carpet. The Toledo-born son of a white-collar employee of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, Saxon once studied for the Catholic priesthood but switched, first to economics and later to law, in which he earned a degree at Georgetown University ('50) while working for the Treasury Department. In 1952, he became assistant to Stephen A. Mitchell, then chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He spent the eight Eisenhower years as assistant general counsel for the American Bankers Association and later as an attorney for First National Bank of Chicago. President Kennedy named him comptroller...
...students are more pious, humble and industrious than the young men who study for the Roman Catholic priesthood. And perhaps no archbishop in the U.S. is more sympathetic to the plight of the meek than Boston's mercurial Richard Cardinal Gushing. Now students from St. John's Seminary,* barely a stone's throw from Cushing's residence, are rebelliously demanding reform. Cushing, suddenly stiff-necked, has expelled eight of them. The battle between liberal prelate and freedom-seeking students symbolizes one of the unresolved problems of the new spirit of freedom in the Catholic Church: reformation...