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...movie theaters round the country the most talked-about new film is Todo Modo (In Every Way), a surrealistic thriller built around a savage portrayal of the Christian Democratic leadership, including Aldo Moro, the country's Premier. In one scene, Marcello Mastroianni, playing a satanic priest, conducts a doom-laden spiritual retreat for the Christian Democratic chiefs, and snarls at them: "After 30 years in power, how much longer do you really think you have? You are all dead, can't you understand? Dead...
Married. The Rev. James E. Groppi, 45, activist Roman Catholic priest who marched for civil rights in the 1960s, against the Viet Nam War in the early 1970s, and later drove a Yellow Cab in Milwaukee to finance his studies at Antioch's Law School; and Margaret Rozga, 30, lecturer and doctoral student in English literature at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee; in a civil ceremony in Las Vegas on April 22. Father Groppi is now excommunicated and banned from performing priestly functions. If the Vatican should give him permission to become a layman, the decree of excommunication...
...author characterizes the present ministry as exuding "deep introspection and piety reminiscent of the traditional parish priest." Although a marked emphasis is placed on communal and individual spiritual expression, that "deep introspection" would more appropriately be labeled "meditative reflection." This reflection summons the individual to contemplate God's promise of the Kingdom. Similarly, the celebration of the sacraments is a pledge and a witness of the promises of God. It is a communal affirmation of God's pledge to us and our pledge to the task of bringing this Kingdom to fulfillment. As in the examples of Mother Theresa...
...America's favorite pastime," the poet and priest said, "is to create heroes and then eat them for sandwiches. Fortunately, they found me inedible...
...Catholic priest closed with a warning regarding construction of nuclear arms. "Builders of nuclear weapons-- they're really after our souls," Berrigan mused...