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...French priest named Marc Oraison was awarded the highest possible mark at Paris' Institut Catholique for a doctoral thesis entitled Christian Life and Problems of Sexuality. After it was published as a book, Abbe Oraison was summoned to the Holy Office at the Vatican, where, he recalls, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani and Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo counseled him that the best methods for preserving sexual purity are a good diet and fear of sin. As Abbé Oraison wrote in Le Monde: "Twice Cardinal Pizzardo repeated to me, 'For purity-fright, spaghetti and beans.' " Then Cardinal Ottaviani told...
...Florida, he in a grey metal casket, she in a green-and-white one. With hundreds of curiosity seekers gawking and jostling in a rolling, palm-fringed cemetery in West Palm Beach, mother and son were buried with Catholic rites. Charlie had obviously been deranged, said the Whitmans' priest, and was not responsible for the sin of murder and therefore eligible for burial in hallowed ground...
...Beeck turns to historical precedent, pointing out that the church has always accepted the validity of sacraments per formed by so-called "extraordinary ministers" under emergency conditions. Penance, for example, was occasionally administered by laymen well into the Middle Ages, while up to 314 A.D. deacons rather than priests sometimes celebrated the Eucharist. Even today laymen can validly baptize when no priest is around. Thus, concludes Van Beeck, Protestant clergymen may well be, from a Catholic viewpoint, "extraordinary ministers" of the sacraments for their own churches, whose good faith, sound doctrine, and correct spiritual intentions fulfill the essential conditions...
...called The Education of Catholic Americans (Aldine; $8.95). Financed by a $250,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation, the four-year study was conducted by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center and edited by two of its sociologists: the Rev. Andrew M. Greeley, a Catholic priest, and Peter H. Rossi, a self-styled "devout agnostic...
Many others came to worship the priests and priestesses of their various religions. (The high priest and priestess, Bob Dylan and Joan Bezz, were noticeably absent...