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When the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued its 5,000-word statement on homosexuality, premarital sex and masturbation, it was responding in part to complaints that the church was not providing sufficient guidelines for sexual behavior and attitudes. Days later, Father John McNeill, a Jesuit priest and former teacher of moral theology at the now defunct Woodstock College and at Fordham University, won the designation Imprimi Potest (it can be printed) for a book strongly attacking the church's views on homosexuality. It had taken two years to win that designation, which is not an endorsement...
...modern world. The worshipers had come early to the auditorium in the northern French city of Lille; while a choir chanted medieval Latin hymns, the congregation quickly filled 5,700 seats and spilled out into the aisles. Then the celebrant of the Mass entered, a pink-cheeked, white-haired priest who moved solemnly up the aisle behind a quartet of acolytes bearing lighted candles...
...words from the altar were anything but pious or loyal. Instead, the priest, Roman Catholic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, 70, coolly denounced the Vatican for having entered an "adulterous marriage" with "revolution and subversion." As a result, charged the prelate, "The rite of Mass today is a bastard rite. The sacraments today are bastard sacraments. We want to have prayers like our ancestors. We want to keep the Catholic faith." After an hour of such remonstrations, Lefebvre began the Mass in Latin, according to the four-century-old Tridentine rite, now superseded and banned by Rome...
...movie, which is at least an improvement on the original, serves as a good example of what a talented director can do with intractable material. Irvin Kershner, who is known for such pocket dramas as The Hoodlum Priest and Loving, is working for the first time on a large scale. With the excellent assistance of Cameraman Owen Roizman (The Exorcist), he brings off some fine set pieces: a buffalo hunt, the sacking of a fort. The movie is too glib about Indian spirituality to be good, too self-conscious about being on the Indians' side to be wholly convincing...
...obscene letters branding them "touts" (informers). "We will not be deterred by the hysterics of the peace-at-any-price brigade," huffed one IRA officer. The Protestant Telegraph, the Rev. Ian Paisley's fanatically Loyalist newspaper, also denounced the women's peace movement as "spurious" and "priest-inspired." After a gang of youngsters tried to set fire to her house, Williams sent her two children into hiding with friends...