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...foot soldier stationed in Manchuria when he died in battle against the invading Russians in the final week of World War II. Late last month his aging parents and a small group of mourners filed through the rain into a peaceful Buddhist temple outside Osaka. There, after a priest sounded a massive gong to begin a memorial sutra, the worshipers paid their silent respects to Hikotaro's memory. According to the Buddhist calendar, it was the 33rd anniversary of his death-the date on which the spirits of the dead are believed to depart forever from the earth...
...memorial services-often followed by lengthy feasts-have proved to be particularly taxing for Japan's 1.7 million Buddhist priests. Most Sundays, Tokyo Priest Kotetsu officiates at five or six services. "By the time I go to bed," he says, "I feel physically dead tired although spiritually aroused." Shoko, the Osaka abbot who presided at the services for Hikotaro, has stopped smoking to protect his overworked vocal cords. The work has its secular compensations. Temple offerings range from $100 to $3,000 per service...
Spectacles are nothing new for Parish Priest Frank R. Knutti, 70, whose parish is involved in both the Anglo-Catholic and Neo-Pentecostal movements. Before entering the ministry late in life, he was variously a jazz saxophonist, a member of a barnstorming aviation troupe, and a manager of several radio stations. Accompanied by his blind cocker spaniel Taffy, he zips around his parish...
Brother Ignatius Jones, FMS, is a case in point. Brother Ignatius is your basic old-line Catholic teaching brother, which means he is like a priest because he can't get married and has to wear a black-and-white habit that makes him look like a six-foot penguin, although he doesn't have to say Mass every Sunday and instead gets to say things like "Jesus Christ" without having to wrap a sermon around them. Brother Ignatius taught calculus in my high school in New York, and he taught it really well, because everyone learned it really well...
...decapitated. His head was sent to Constantinople, where it was publicly displayed on a stake-the impaler impaled. Dracula's headless body is said to be buried in the monastery of Snagov, near Bucharest. It was there last week that a party-line-conscious priest observed of Rumania's new hero: "Vlad was a good Christian and he loved the truth. If he impaled people it was just to put a stop to injustice by noblemen at home and Turks from abroad." With chilling assurance he added, "Traitors have to be punished, and Vlad was very efficient...