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...mass murder "an evil act that makes a mockery of the ideals these people profess to serve." In Rhodesia, as in South Africa, the Catholics have often opposed the ruling white regime but nonetheless have been caught in the crossfire. Only two months ago, a retired bishop, a priest and a nun were slain on a remote Rhodesian road by a lone guerrilla...
Died. Father James G. Keller, 76, Roman Catholic missionary priest who founded the Christophers, a loose-knit ecumenical movement devoted to individual action and the credo that it is "better to light one candle than to curse the darkness"; of complications arising from Parkinson's disease; in Manhattan. Keller preached his gospel in more than a dozen books, a TV show and a movie, You Can Change the World...
Hooray for Bishop Moore! A person who feels that he or she was intended by God to be a priest should become one. That person's sexual preference should make no difference...
...known, does not exist, but had been invented by the present chief of the KCIA, Shin Jik Soo some ten years earlier to provide a pretext for this kind of action. Two American churchmen, the Rev. George Ogle, a United Methodist, and Father James Sinnott, a Maryknoll priest in Korea since 1960, were expelled from Korea for attempting to refute the government's charges...
...their struggle against the elements. But my father, taking seriously the warning that his little beach cottage was about to become part of the 12-mile fishing limit, wasted little time in disabusing me of any pretensions towards heroism. So, popping open a 10 a.m. beer with the local priest and a couple of the town aldermen, I reluctantly boarded the reconverted, Prohibition era rum-runner the local ferry monopoly had provided to shuttle us off to safety for a mere $1.75 apiece. My friends I left to their uncertain fate...