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...likely to intervene in politics merely to do the oligarchy's bidding and then quietly retire. The Church in Latin America is changing. While Rome still prohibits birth control, thereby encouraging the fecundity that is one of the continent's biggest obstacles to economic progress, many young priests quietly counsel contraception. In Chile, priests have increasingly drifted into poor neighborhoods to live and work. In Ecuador, they lead a movement to bring church property under land reform. In Bolivia, they have suggested that workers be granted a voice in their firms and a share in the profits...
That Chavez has dramatized the problems of Mexican Americans in the city as well as on the farm seems beyond dispute. Father Bernardo Kenny, a Sacramento priest with a sizable Mexican-American congregation, believes that even if Chavez never wins his strike he will have made a "tremendous contribution." Says Kenny: "He focused attention on the problem of the farm workers, and he made...
...Order and Chaos. "Elizabethan is a foreign language to them," says Epis copal Priest Walter Smith of Atlanta, speaking of couples who want to re write the service in their own phrase ology. Dr. B. Davie Napier, dean of the chapel at Stanford University, ad mits that he has become "increasingly uneasy with a ceremony that doesn't speak to us now." In one recent wedding ceremony performed by Dean Napier, the bridegroom vowed to take his wife "for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, in war and in peace, in order...
Shannon explains: "We wanted them to feel they were a part of our mar riage." With the approval of their priest, they decided not to have a nuptial Mass...
Hell on Earth. Penderecki based The Devils of Loudun on both Aldous Huxley's historical essay and John Whiting's play The Devils. The libretto sketches the facts surrounding the torture and execution of a Jesuit priest in a 17th century French provincial town. Sister Jeanne of the Angels, prioress of St. Ursula's Convent, asks Father Urbain Grandier (sung by Baritone Andre Hiolski) to become the cloister's confessor. When the worldly, sensual priest declines the offer, Sister Jeanne has a series of hysterical sexual hallucinations that soon infect other nuns in the convent. Eventually...