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...Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, Kavanaugh...
Practical Answer. One man who accepts neither alternative is the Rev. John Schocklee, a priest in a low-income area in St. Louis. His solution: bussing slumdwellers out of the central city so that they can shop in a farmers' market. A more practical answer is the cooperative. Manhattan's Morningside Heights Consumer Cooperative, a clean, friendly store on the fringes of Harlem, not only offers prices as low or lower than commercial outlets but also gives a 4.3% rebate on each customer's annual purchases. So successful has Morningside been that another coop, in the very...
...care to see Black Power become black terror. In Milwaukee, where Negroes are caroling, "I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas," the most publicized white leader in the new wave takes the position that peace, not violence, is the prospect. Says Father James E. Groppi, the Roman Catholic priest whose Negro followers call him "Ajax, the White Knight": "Black solidarity is a black identity to combat what is going on all around us. This is the prelude to real brotherhood and justice. Power is essential to black people in that with it they can move to a position...
...upper-class, priest-run school comes a new boy, Georges (Francis Lacombrade). He is 16, handsome, intelligent and reserved. The school is rigid with discipline and clerical policing, up tight with sexual tension. In this tensely celibate world, Georges is shocked to discover that the classmate who first befriended him is having a love affair with another...
Around them, though, the school is seething with suspicion and suppression. A priest-teacher, whose mind is slowly cracking with frustrated desire, threatens to take Alexandre away from Georges by becoming Alexandre's confessor. Finally the two boys are discovered in a clandestine meeting by a humane priest whose wisdom has been too cramped by his spiritual discipline to foresee the tragedy he triggers...