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...scene, he is off in a small New Jersey parish hearing confessions. Suddenly he is summoned for an urgent phone call. Gregory Peck is on the line, wanting to know why on earth the church has rated his forthcoming film To Kill a Mockingbird unsuitable for teenagers. The priest explains that the ending seems to justify the sin of lying, even though it is in a good cause. As Sullivan remembers it, before Mockingbird is released, the final scene is altered slightly. The church gives the film an "adults and adolescents" rating and, later, an award...
...Irish into Cambridge, the Irish were being absorbed into the community. The Chroniclereplaced its "Paddy" jokes with wisecracks about the Jews and Blacks; Irish moved out of the tenements on the east side of town; and in 1861 Harvard gave an honorary degree to Bishop J. Fitzpatrick, the first priest so honored. the desegregation was not quite complete, however. In 1880, Cambridge still had parallel horsecar lines--one which took the Irish laborers to work, and one for "proper gentlemen...
Cambridge has one of the larger Portuguese communities in New England, with 5-10,000 persons from Portugal or of Portuguese descent. The Portuguese have their own travel agencies, restaurants and department stores--and even a priest at St. Anthony's, the Portuguese parish church. And while the number of immigrants setting in Cambridge has risen over the past ten years, a lot of families have ancestors who settled in Cambridge more than a century...
When the Vatican ordered Massachusetts Democrat Robert Drinan, a Jesuit priest, to withdraw from public office last May, 15 politicians lunged for his seat in Congress. By August, polls indicated that Barney Frank, 40, a Harvard-educated former aide to Boston Mayor Kevin White and a popular state legislator for eight years, was the clear favorite. Frank had been endorsed by Drinan and Senator Edward Kennedy. Moreover, voters in the largely liberal district, which includes wealthy Boston suburbs and factory towns in central Massachusetts, liked the rumpled candidate's advocacy of more public spending on mass transit, senior citizens...
...others in the Boston area were upset with Medeiros for having crossed the line between church and state. When Worcester's Monsignor Leo Battista and 29 other Catholic clergymen asked Drinan to withdraw his endorsement of Frank, the priest refused. He warned the hierarchy that it risked damaging the church by involving itself in the race. Said he: "The authority of the church in parts of this district is dreadful...