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...times at the hostel: a young journalist (Claudio Cassinelli) is pressed by an eager priest to collaborate on memoirs that will try to explain away his wartime cooperation with the Nazis. The priest has lodgings at a religious hostel virtually at the Vatican's threshold and books a room for the journalist just down the corridor. As is usually the way with such fictive establishments, the place is a hotbed of perversion, frustration and bad manners. Presiding over these various follies is an iron maiden passing as a nun (Glenda Jackson), who gets her jollies by encouraging everyone else...
...spills out a tale of hot romance with his sister. His parents did not approve and shipped him off to the hostel for safekeeping. Jackson finds religious relief- and, one supposes, some measure of sexual satisfaction - by strapping a belt of thorns around her waist very tightly. The collaborationist priest craves extra desserts at mealtimes...
Died. John Carmel Cardinal Heenan, 70, Archbishop of Westminster and Roman Catholic Primate of England; following a heart attack; in London. Heenan spent 16 years as a parish priest in a crowded East London district before becoming Bishop of Leeds in 1951, where he continued to perform the duties of parish priest and lived among the workers. Named Archbishop of Westminster in 1963 and cardinal two years later, Heenan became leader of 4 million Roman Catholics in England and Wales...
...Machebeuf had come to Santa Fe in the wake of the Mexican War, only a few years after the U.S. Army. To the Mexicans of the new territory, the Frenchmen were simply invaders in different uniforms. When Lamy suspended Padre Gallegos of Albuquerque for insubordination, the popular priest stood for election to the U.S. Congress. There he ceaselessly pilloried his enemy. Padre Martinez, a pastor who ruled Taos like a prairie king, refused to be tithed by the new bishop. After an agonized power struggle, Lamy excommunicated his adversary in 1857. Martinez, recalcitrant to the end, gathered a loyal band...
...babe." This time he syncopated the lines, "I'm not the one you want babe," giving it a jazzy flavor. The first half of the show closed with a new love song, "Isis," that sounded like the parable from John Wesley Harding, "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest," about a false search for happiness...