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Inside many a modern Roman Catholic priest nowadays seethes a latter-day Luther crying to be born. One troubled cleric who has let the rebel inside him speak out is the Rev. James Kavanaugh, 37, a diocesan priest of Lansing, Mich., now serving as a counselor to a private mental health foundation in California. In a new book entitled A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church (Trident; $4.95), Kavanaugh unleashes a bitter, searing attack on the foibles and faults of Roman Catholicism, which he still professes to love and serve. Thanks in large measure to its shock value...
...AENEAS (Angel). If the English had not loved spoken drama so well, Henry Purcell might have started a glorious operatic tradition in his country. As it was, Dido and Aeneas is Purcell's only opera, which he composed for a 1689 performance by the "Young Gentlewomen" at Josias Priest's School in Chelsea. This album boasts a more distinguished roster of singers, including Victoria de los Angeles, but Purcell's baroque is as airy and clear as a birdsong in an English meadow-and sounds just as repetitious. Sir John Barbirolli conducts with vivacity...
...Pope took up the objections to celibacy - that it is contrary to human nature, that there is no Scriptural basis for it, that its observance has become almost impossible - and rejected them all. On the practical level, he answered, celibacy "gives to the priest the maximum efficiency." He described "the heavy and sweet burden" of chastity for priests as "the total and generous gift of themselves" to Christ. "Priestly celibacy," he declared, "has been guarded by the church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our time...
Died. Canon Lionel Groulx, 89, Roman Catholic priest and early force behind French Canadian nationalism, a longtime (1915 to 1948) history professor at the University of Montreal who in lectures, countless articles and 30 books preached the revival of French Canadian civilization "contaminated by the Protestant and Saxon atmosphere," and advocated a Canada composed of virtually autonomous states; of a cardiac arrest; in Vaudreuil...
First to leave their homes were 545 Catholics under the wing of their parish priest, Father Co, who brought with them a ramshackle altar graced by flower-filled vases fashioned out of empty beer cans. "We are happy to get away from the fighting," said Father Co, "but some are sad to leave, especially since now is the time of the rice harvest...