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...come in, who, I presume, was from the coroner's office, shouted very loudly, 'You can't do that! You can't leave here now!' Nobody paid any attention to him. We pushed out through another set of swinging doors. I remember a Catholic priest was between this and the doorway, and was praying. It was most disconcerting because we were concerned at all times that some moment they would say stop, and I hated to think what might happen to Mrs. Kennedy if she had to go back and go through this all over...
...first transports were back in Leopoldville. They were chockablock with living, dead, dying and wounded. They kept coming all day: crisp white nuns and an old priest in a black Homburg; two little girls, bloodstained, holding tightly to their dolls; a mother and daughter in pajamas and no shoes; a baby with its feet sticking out of an airline...
...dawn, a helicopter swoops out of the hazy white sky, hovers above the pool and terrace. The teen-agers stand at the bleary end of their orgy, having threatened to leap to death from their lofty playground if any grownups intrude. A black-frocked, airborne priest addresses them by loudspeaker: "You wanted some fun, fine. Letting off steam is healthy. We face an inspiring future-don't play into the hands of the Reds." The kids laugh. "So does God's word make itself heard," sneers...
...Glory. Every Sunday at noon, with the addition of an altar, the same building is ready for the Holy Communion services of St. Clement's Episcopal Church, an off-Broadway mission parish serving the theater community. Running both shows is the Rev. Sidney Lanier, 41, a lively, loquacious priest who as president of the theater and vicar of St. Clement's is trying to bridge the gap between church and stage...
Eventually Lanier hopes to become selfsupporting, a worker-priest living off his earnings in the theater and television. He also hopes that ecclesiastical experiments, such as his theater mission, will lead to a revitalization of the church. "I think that the church as we know it has to disappear," he says. "We have to take seriously the New Testament, where it says that the leaven must be lost in the dough...