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...major event in the grim routine of the leprosarium at Nyamsong in Cameroon is a visit by a tall, burly priest in a limp white cassock. As he approaches the swampy hamlet, with its hospital, schools and workshops, the lepers come out of their huts to greet him: in wheelchairs, on crutches, on their knees. Some have only stumps in place of hands and feet; others are completely covered with ugly open sores. Smiling gravely, the priest greets them all, clasping some to his breast, kissing others, lifting the children high in the air until they giggle with delight. Thus...
...Detroit News. At the building, only police were present to hear Sheila Ann Murphy, the 21 -year-old leader of the marchers, read a statement accusing the News of becoming "a diabolical menace because of its racially inflammatory editorials, features and distorted reportings." The Rev. Joseph McHale, a Catholic priest, ignited a trash can full of copies of the newspaper. He called the act a "symbol of purification" and urged a public boycott of the News...
...ecclesiastical housekeeping. In addition to formally elevating 33 prelates to the rank of cardinal, he named a new international theological commission to study the relationship between heresy and permissible dissent within the church. The Pope also approved a new Roman missal, the book of prayers used by the priest at Mass; the new rubrics flatly forbid any fur ther unauthorized experimentation but approve such tested innovations as the use of jazz and folk music in the liturgy and end the centuries-old requirement that women cover their heads in church...
...conservative theologically, but he is far less rigid than the reactionary Cicognani. Although the son of a wealthy landowner, Villot was known as a champion of "the church of the poor" while Archbishop of Lyon and had frequent and cordial contacts with many dissident groups, including the French worker-priest movement...
...countryside of England, outgoing Gallery Director John Walker points out in the catalogue, that is his principal achievement. "More than any other artist, he was able to embody in paint Wordsworth's 'Impulse from a Vernal Wood,' " Walker writes. "He remains among artists the high priest of pantheism, the primate of a new religion of natural beauty...