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...there came a second volley and at 10, a third. Armed police shuffled up and down the dirt road, calmly puffing cigarettes. By 11, the gray vans carrying the remains appeared, en route back to the village. A black car also loomed into view; it contained the local priest who had administered last rites to one of the men. "I can't stop because I must celebrate Mass," said the priest, visibly shaken by what he had seen. "I will not say anything...
Catholics and Jews at Harvard must beg for charity from outside the University to find space in which to hold regular daily and weekly worship, and to pay a priest or rabbi. When they wish to give religious instruction to their children, Jews, but not Protestants, must pay rent for a room to the University. The paid preacher in Memorial Church is always Protestant...
Gold also endorsed the recommendations of the University-appointed Stendhal Committee, whiih in 1973 asked Harvard to turn over administration oo Memorial Church to a three-member composed of a Protestant minister, a Catholic priest, and a Jewiih rabbi. The Administration rejected the recommendation that year...
They were bolstered by long soul-searching talks with their other two children and their Roman Catholic parish priest. Father Thomas Trapasso advised them that there was "no moral obligation to use extraordinary means to sustain life when there is no realistic hope of some recovery." But when the Quinlans asked doctors to let their daughter die, the doctors refused. Karen was not a minor, they said, and they might be held responsible for her death...
...writer in the U.S. Catholic press has been a more sulfurous advocate of rightist views in recent years than Jesuit Priest Dan Lyons, 55. He fought the cold war long after most Catholics had thawed. He attacked modernists, the Berrigan brothers and the liberal Catholic press. In 1970, when liberals were agitating for the right to marry and remain priests, he wrote: "The Church decided long ago that the celibate priest is more like Christ...