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Britain's papal nuncio says a peace priest may be a Soviet dupe...
Delivering that limerick in the House of Commons, Conservative M.P. Robert Adley last month twitted a Roman Catholic priest who particularly nettles the Tories: Monsignor Bruce Kent, 53, the tireless general secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Britain's most important peace group...
...ministry; 2) the C.N.D., in the Cardinal's view, is more educational than political; 3) Kent did not claim to be an official church spokesman. "Should the political aspects of C.N.D. develop further and become predominant in its work," Hume wrote, "it would be difficult for a priest to hold responsible office" and a lay leader would be more suitable. He added that "recent developments" had caused him "serious misgivings" and that he was monitoring the problem...
...Ford's weekly paper, the Dearborn Independent, incorporated the Protocols in a series of anti-Semitic articles. These, including the Protocols, were published as a book (The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem) that eventually sold half a million copies. The Rev. Charles Coughlin, the radio priest, harangued his listeners about the Jewish plot...
SENTENCED. Juan María Fernández y Krohn, 33, Spanish priest of an archtraditionahst Roman Catholic faction who last May attempted to kill Pope John Paul II with a bayonet at Portugal's Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima; to seven years and one month in prison; in Vila Nova de Ourém, Portugal. The term includes seven months for contempt of court for disrupting his trial. At his sentencing he shouted, "Puppets! Assassins! Communists!" at his judges...