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Made to honor Professor Mabel K. Whiteside, who herself plays the role of a Priest of Dionysus, the film will be introduced and will carry commentary by William Yandell Elliott, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, emeritus, at Harvard; former Director of the Harvard Summer School; and currently University Professor at The American University...
...worship, puzzling and mysterious to most Latin-rite Catholics, can also instill a parochial insularism and fan the flames of best-forgotten feudal quarrels. Except for language and a few special artifacts, the Ruthenians and the Ukrainian-rite Catholics have an almost identical liturgy, but, says one Ruthenian priest, "no self-respecting Ruthenian would have a Ukrainian in his house...
Bricks & Mortar. One of two Ruthenian bishops in the U.S., Elko for twelve years has been the spiritual leader of 220,000 souls in 120 scattered parishes from Pittsburgh to Alaska. The first American-born priest ever to become a Ruthenian prelate, Elko was in many respects a typical U.S. bishop: a blunt, tough, brick-and-mortar administrator who built 93 new churches and schools for his diocese. Nonetheless, his no-nonsense ways managed to offend both liberals and conservatives in his far-flung...
...Marcelle, these encounters are part of the breath of life, but to Nicolas they are increasing evidence that the world consists only of "mawkish absurdity and lunatic atrocity." His crack-up is inevitable and comes with measured solemnity. Each family confrontation-with his brother, who is a worker priest, with his doting father, his enigmatic mother-erodes a bit more of Nicolas' will to live, and so he kills himself...
...tells of the suffering Catholic whose wife flaunted her infidelity by coming home with other men. "He heard her laugh on the sofa downstairs, heard her moans of pleasure. Finally, he left her. He met another girl who made him know he was a man. He came to his priest and learned that one burst of semen had bound him to a whore...