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...Spectacular Flowering. As spring semester opened last week on the campus near South Bend, Notre Dame clearly reflected St. Augustine's "ever old and ever new." In the Sacred Heart Church, young men in blue and gold jackets knelt in prayer as a priest pronounced the ancient greeting Dominus vobiscum. Across the 1,100-acre campus, bulldozers chewed the frozen earth, and riveters set steel beams arattling. Under construction: a geodesic-dome student center, a federally financed radiation laboratory, a $3,000,000 computer center, a ten-story library big enough to seat half the student body (total...
...prelates chose soft-voiced Metropolitan Iakovos,* 68, of Attica and Megaris. Then, right after the election, an Athenian priest and a retired Greek admiral accused Iakovos of "unspeakable acts." Greece's leading newspapers called for the new primate to resign, and a committee was appointed to investigate the charge. Iakovos stubbornly accepted formal enthronement. "It is a blasphemy for me even to mention the word resignation," he said...
...received the approval of his Jesuit superior and an imprimatur from a local auxiliary bishop, has not been ordered withdrawn from print. But Vatican officials agreed that only placement on the Index could have been a sterner rebuke. Murmuring that his book was only the opinion of a "simple priest," Father Lombardi affirmed his loyalty to the church and retired to silence. Said one Vatican cleric: "Only the Pope is God's microphone...
...noted in files of the London police. The uncertainty reflects the book's focal paradox: Sammael is the angel of death, but Samson, as the author explains (stoutly refusing to allow himself the joys of obscurantism) means "of the sun, solar." The bookseller is subverter, protector, panderer and priest to a group of curious cripples-Julius, his bloodless, asexual young assistant; Louise, a housewife whose husband thinks her job is honest modeling; Bert, a cheerful, muscled vacuum; Veronica, a faintly mad Soho drifter; and Bateman, a policeman. Louise, Bert and Veronica pose for the pornographic pictures, and Bateman, assigned...
Some Catholics seemed to agree. "The America editorial." said one priest in San Francisco, "sounds like the little boy who didn't get his way, so he says, 'Now you must do this for me.' The sole objection advanced only serves to emphasize what a 'good Catholic' Kennedy is, for the merits of the Catholic school claims for public assistance are not recognized by a large segment of the Catholic public." Historian Edward Gargan, of Chicago's Loyola University, dismissed school aid as "an ephemeral issue." Said he: "To many Catholics, the question...