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ACCORDING to the Justice Department, those are the words of Roman Catholic Priest Philip Berrigan in a letter to Sister Elizabeth McAlister about a plan to kidnap Henry Kissinger, the President's national security adviser. The full letter and another the Government contends was written by Sister Elizabeth to Father Berrigan were released last week as part of new indictments issued against the pair by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg, Pa. The new indictments, replacing ones issued in January, dropped Berrigan's brother Daniel, who is also a priest, from a list of nondefendant co-conspirators...
...antiwar demonstrator. Yesterday, a 25-year-old man and his fiancee were arrested as they came out of a restaurant on Pennsylvania Avenue. When police took them to the detention camp opposite RFK Stadium the couple decided that the end must be near. They proceeded to find a priest inside the camp, were fenced-in area covered by a canvas married, and designated a corner of the sheet as their "honeymoon Tent...
Unfortunately, even after Vatiean II, there are still some who think there can only be a Christian impact and a Christian witness in society by having a priest or a Church organization leading the pack. But this is a view that downgrades the layman's proper role and falsifies the meaning of his faith. There are still some who think that five centuries of "clericalism of the right" can be undone and atoned for by instituting a new "clericalism of the left...
...Robert F. Duryea, 49, has been a priest for 25 years. He has also been married, it turned out, for nearly seven of them. While serving as chaplain at San Jose's O'Connor Hospital, he had struck up a friendship with a young nurse named Lualan O'Connor, now 30. "Hospitals are such timeless places," he recalls. "It seems like such a dreamlike thing." A sympathetic priest married them quietly. Duryea settled his wife in nearby Santa Clara. A son came along 1½ years later, and the couple named him Paul, after Pope Paul...
...formal statement from the parish council, "we would keep him as pastor. Because of our experience with Father Duryea, we feel that the church's rule on celibacy, which deprives our community of ministers such as Father Duryea, should be changed as soon as possible. As a married priest, he has been a very successful pastor...