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...camera he may not seem the type, but on-camera Richard Burton cuts a fine figure as a priest. After playing a man of the cloth on a devilish mission in Exorcist II: The Heretic, Burton has once again put on his cleric's collar, in Absolution. This time he plays Father Goddard, an opinionated Jesuit priest at a Roman Catholic boys' school in England. Trouble arises when his favorite student tells him in confession that he has committed murder. To get away from such traumas, Burton likes to relax on the set by tossing a cricket ball...
Nevertheless, James Carroll - an ex-priest but still a committed Catholic - is not simply lashing out at his alma mater...
...Take what you want," replied the priest...
...offices and the clergy. > Episcopal Church (2,882,000 members). A commission is studying the issue in preparation for next year's General Convention. But the furor last year over the ordination of New York's Ellen Barrett as the church's first openly homosexual priest forced the House of Bishops to declare its "present understanding" against ordination of "advocating and/or practicing" homosexuals, as distinct from persons with a "homosexual orientation...
...Sunday-a Festival for a Future," sponsored by 60 religious and political groups. Its aim? To support the United Nations' first special session on disarmament, which opened last week. Ellsberg said the meeting's goal was "to save the earth and everything that lives on it." Jesuit Priest Berrigan was not sanguine about that. To halt nuclear proliferation would take a miracle, he said, adding that "they're in short supply...