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...thousands of people, these policies have led to drastically scarce bed space for mental patients, swollen numbers of disturbed homeless people roaming the streets of America's cities, and forbidding legal constraints against forced institutionalization. In Onalaska, Wis., last year, a 30-year-old man shot to death a priest, a lay minister and a church custodian during a mass. He had been released from a Michigan mental-health institution, where he had been committed after several prior assaults. But Wisconsin's laws and those of many other states would not allow him to be involuntarily committed...
Reaction to the fashions, shown on French TV, was mixed. Jesuit Theologian Jean Michel welcomed relief from today's "dull and uninspiring" vestments- by-catalog. But a priest at the Paris chancery office saw new evidence of the "crisis in the West." Meanwhile, an old woman entering Notre-Dame cathedral was perturbed: "Why dress up priests as circus performers...
...mention The Oxford Book of Legal Anecdotes and The Oxford Book of New Zealand Plants), has now had the intriguing idea of compiling brief biographies of all 263 Popes (plus 39 antipopes) from St. Peter to John Paul II. It entrusted this enormous task to J.N.D. Kelly, an Anglican priest who has served as principal at Oxford's St. Edmund Hall and as canon of Chichester Cathedral, as well as chairman of the Archbishop of Canterbury's commission on Roman Catholic relations. His dictionary is correspondingly scholarly, cautious, meticulous, yet still a rich mine of arcane nuggets...
That same evening three miles away, thousands of Poles congregated in a church courtyard. After saying Mass, Warsaw Bishop Jerzy Modzelewski solemnly blessed the dark marble tombstone that marks the grave of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, a revered priest who was murdered by secret police in October 1984. Earlier, the crowd of 8,000 waved the red-and-white banners of the outlawed Solidarity trade union...
Elena is believed to be behind many oppressive government decisions. Father Gheorghe Calciu, 61, a Rumanian Orthodox priest who was allowed to emigrate to the U.S. last year after 21 years in Rumanian prisons, contends that the First Lady has launched a determined campaign against religion. Father Calciu says more than 60 Orthodox churches have been demolished since 1977 as part of a drive to renovate urban centers by replacing architectural treasures and other traditional structures with monumental government buildings. Many Baptist churches and several Jewish synagogues have been razed...