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...disarmament can we properly protect our people." The organization behind the huge rally was the Committee for Nuclear Disarmament. Two years ago, the group had 3,000 members; today, counting its affiliates, it has 250,000. C.N.D.'s secretary-general is Monsignor Bruce Kent, 52, a Roman Catholic priest who served in the British army as a tank commander after World War II. The monsignor is a pacifist, but, by his estimate, 80% of the organization he heads is not. Says...
...Tunney, a Roman Catholic missionary and sometime CIA operative, totters back to civilization from the Cambodian jungle, where he has been missing for 20 years. Why? Before shipping him back to his order in Florida, the Company does its unsubtle best to pry the answer from the emaciated priest. Back home, Tunney attracts a lot of professional interest. There is a top KGB operative from Moscow, a sacerdotal snooper from the Vatican, a cold-blooded loner from...
...Spinoza's fault. In 1908 William James Durant, the Massachusetts-born son of unschooled French-Canadian immigrants, was well on his way to fulfilling his mother's dream that he become a priest. Then he came upon a copy of Spinoza's Ethics in a seminary library. So convincing did he find the 17th century Dutch pantheist that he quickly abandoned the church, deciding instead, as he put it, to pursue a "more intellectually honest life." What he found was another calling. For 48 years, eleven volumes and nearly 10,000 pages, Will Durant labored with monastic...
...inside the Soviet Union a document verifying the circumstances of thousands of martyrs' deaths. Most died in slave-labor camps. For the final ceremony, 1,000 clergy and laity turned up, including Prince Vladimir, the Pretender to the Russian throne, and many converts: an Arab abbess, a Sioux priest from South Dakota, and two Japanese seminarians...
...clip when he crashed into a centerfield wall while running after a line drive. He knocked himself unconscious, and by the end of the season his batting average dropped to .310. In 1947 he again crashed into an outfield wall, with such force that a Roman Catholic priest administered last rites as Reiser sprawled unconscious in his team's clubhouse. Though he recovered, headaches and dizzy spells from eleven collisions drove him from the game...