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Perhaps the best known of the U.S. missionary societies, the Maryknollers have been sending priests and nuns to serve in remote villages of Guatemala since 1943, currently have about 100 stationed there. Until recently, their number included Sister Marian Peter, 39, a sprightly specialist in catechism and social work who organized a cadre of followers among wealthy Catholic students at Guatemala's two major universities. During vacations, she frequently took them to work and study at impoverished missions run by two priest friends: Boston-born Maryknollers Thomas Melville, 37, and his brother Arthur...
During last year's outbreak of left-wing terrorism (TIME, Jan. 26), Sister Marian's students were appalled by the tough government measures taken to put down the uprising, decided on religious grounds to side with the rebels. So did the nun and her two priest friends, who met one day in November with a guerrilla leader in the village of Escuintla. When the Maryknoll superior in Guatemala, Father John M. Breen, heard of the meeting, he ordered the missionaries to stay out of politics or return to the order's headquarters in Ossining, N.Y. Instead, Sister...
Several speakers at the service, including Catholic priest Phillip Berrigan, reinforced their solidarity with the five defendants in the Federal conspiracy case, by stating that they too aided, abetted, and counseled, young men to resist the draft...
This same desire for contemporaneity, the letter went on, has led to a number of errors that now threaten the church -such as the argument that the primary need in Catholicism is not "conversion to God" but a rebuilding of structures, and that the priestly ministry is not a special divine gift. In deploring the "derelict priest," who has scandalized the faithful by leaving the church, the bishops argued that the meaning of the priesthood cannot be made relevant in purely humanistic categories. "It is not the Christian vocation to canonize the human condition as such or to lament over...
...very, very intense way and to tell the musicians a great deal about how he wants it played." Says the Israel Philharmonic's chief concertmaster, Zvi Haftel: "He is more than just a gifted conductor. To change from Bruckner, which he conducts like a saint or an Indian priest, to Webern and then to Stravinsky with a burning fire and conviction-and transmit it to the orchestra-that is genius...