Word: priestly
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...past too much has been forbidden. Over the whole group hovers the satanic, death-worshiping Freddy Thorne. He is a dentist by trade, but in fact he is a faithless St. Augustine indulging his "hyena appetite for dirty truths" in his role as Updike's designated "priest" to the tribe. "He thinks we're a magic circle of heads to keep the night out," says Angela Hanema. "He thinks we've made a church of one another...
...contemporary Christian, and as a priest, I totally acknowledge "a Christianity in the midst of change, confusion and disarray." But I'm also convinced totally that right now and always it is quite possible to be a lively, dynamic and vigorous contemporary Christian-which is another way of saying, a genuine man for all seasons...
...complain that their brothers across the river in K.C., Kans., had been given a day off from school in tribute to King, Mayor Ilus W. Davis acted sensibly to calm them by linking arms with a band of black ministers and accepting the offer of a Roman Catholic priest to give the students an afternoon of rock music at a nearby church. Davis, aided by Kansas City Chiefs' Football Stars Curtis McClinton and Buck Buchanan (both black), cooled the crowd. But then, as the youngsters began boarding buses, Kansas City police responded to a thrown pop bottle with...
Married. Vittorio De Sica, 65, cinema's high priest of neorealism (The Bicycle Thief; Two Women); and Maria Mercader, 51, Spanish-born actress, his constant companion for 20 years; in Fains, France. To evade his country's no-divorce laws, the Italian director became a French citizen in 1966, was later granted a divorce from his first wife, Giuditta Rissone...
...with, and that faith is sustained by communal structure. Churchmen would also argue that there is nothing obsolete about the basic necessity for worship and prayer. "Liturgy must be an expression of something that is happening in the community," says the Rev. David Kirk, a Melchite Catholic priest who is founder of a unique interfaith center in Manhattan called Emmaus House. "Without worship, the community is a piece of rubbish." On the other hand, there is little doubt that the churches are in desperate need of new, this-worldly liturgies that reflect present needs rather than past glories...