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...foundation by renouncing all claim to temporal sovereignty, and defies tradition by walking through the streets to his coronation. He sells the Vatican treasures and gives the proceeds to the poor. Homelier touches include Hadrian giving an audience to a charwoman who had once befriended the "spoiled priest" and who now brings him a jar of her own pickled onions. In the end, as the fantasy grows more fevered, Hadrian is shot to death by an English Socialist agitator who had long been his personal enemy...
...sharp-toothed incessant talker. The talk is hushed as chanting begins in the rear of the theater. With measured tread, the Sacred College advances down the two long aisles in a swirl of scarlet and incense. As the cardinals reach the stage, they pause before the bishop and the priest: "Wilt thou accept pontificality?" Rolfe turns to kneel to his bishop, so unexpectedly chosen, only to find that the prelate is already kneeling to him. "Wilt thou accept pontificality?" The bishop whispers: "The answer is 'Volo' or 'Nolo.' " For an instant, terrified gratification flashes across Rolfe...
...Power is the name of the game," said one Roman Catholic priest in Chicago last week. That was the mood of the 233 clerical delegates to the constitutional convention of the National Federation of Priests' Councils-the first such organization in the world. Inspired by the successful growth of diocesan-wide priests' associations and senate (TIME, Feb. 23), the federation has been in the works for a year and, like its local counterparts, it is designed to give priests a larger share in shaping the attitudes of a changing church...
...time in life, into the community of the church." Thus he believes it makes more sense for a child raised in a Christian home to undergo baptism at an age when he can really start believing in the church. This procedure would effectively answer the objection of one Anglican priest, who complains that "infant baptism is producing little conscripts for the Christian army when God really wants volunteers...
Died. The Rev. J. Franklin Ewing, 62, Roman Catholic priest and noted anthropologist at Fordham University, who believed in Darwin's theory of evolution while also holding that God created the climate in which living creatures could evolve; after a long illness; in Peekskill, N.Y. Leader of several anthropological expeditions to the Middle East, he still said God created man, and "whether he used the method of evolution or created him from unorganized matter is not of primary importance...