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...never on Sunday. That is when Beaumont, 33, puts on his clericals and drives to St. Stephen's Church in Westminster to deliver the sermon or officiate at Holy Communion. For the man-about-Mayfair is also an Anglican priest, and the richest clergyman in England...
Died. Henry William Montagu Paulet, 16th Marquess of Winchester, 99, Britain's oldest peer, who was still spry enough to take at age 89 as his third wife the daughter of an Indian Parsi high priest; in Monte Carlo...
Doubts About Dogma. A seminary student from the age of twelve, Hegger was ordained as a priest in 1936. Even as a novice, he had doubts about Catholicism's Marian dogmas and about papal infallibility; as a priest, he also came to question the validity of the Mass and confession. Sent to Brazil to teach philosophy, Hegger learned the tenets of Protestantism from a Methodist pastor in Rio ; in July 1948 he formally left the church...
...once a dedicated Stalinist, now talks more like a democrat. The leader of the 1956 intellectuals' revolt, he was singled out for attack by Gomulka for carrying "revisionism" too far, though he is still allowed to teach at the University of Warsaw. In his essay, The Priest and the Jester, Kolakowski compares a philosophy of absolutes to the priest in history, a philosophy of skepticism to the jester. Between them there is eternal struggle. "Both violate the mind," writes Kolakowski, "the priest by strangling it with catechism; the jester by harassing it with mockery." Kolakowski favors the jester...
...Mara, a young village girl, and Bebo, a ig-year-old Communist and former resistance fighter. Bebo left the partisans with a big pistol in his pocket and a boy's pathetic notion that he could slay dragons with it. He swaggers about, beats up a Fascist priest, and finally shoots the young son of a militia sergeant. Bebo thinks himself a hero; he knows simply that his victim was a nonCommunist, therefore an enemy. Mara is indifferent; she does not really care much for Bebo or his problems. But when Bebo is sentenced to 14 years in jail...