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Self-consciously, she developed a defensive talent for the quick rejoinder. A Marywood priest once tried to sell her a copy of the Sacred Heart Messenger. "What would you rather read?" he argued. "The Sears, Roebuck catalogue," said Jean. One teacher flunked her when, during a ponderous lecture on doctrine, she broke in to inform the class that "a man's best friend is his dogma...
...carefully chose the word "God-awful'' to describe her first play. He liked some of her sketches better, particularly Going Whose Way?, a take-off on The Bells of St. Mary's. "My favorite lin^," she remembers, "is when this nun was in the iron lung and the priest asks her, 'Isn't this an iron lung?' and she says, 'I'd hoped you wouldn't notice...
...incident points up a situation that is increasingly worrying to the Roman Catholic Church in Italy-the threadbare poverty of the priesthood. Many a country priest begs for his staples, and depends on the traditional Sunday dinner with a parishioner for his one decent meal of the week. Doing the pastor's laundry is a well-established parish chore. Priests in the south have been known to sleep in their churches for lack of lodgings, and some even make ends meet by operating movie halls or cafés as a sideline. In modern Italy, the priest...
...Smallest Ratio. To help remedy this situation, the Vatican is doing its best to persuade the Italian government to increase its annual subsidy to needy clergymen (currently from $500 to $2,700 annually, according to rank) and to set up hospitalization and social security benefits for all priests. The effort is not merely humanitarian. The number of new recruits to the priesthood has been falling off in Italy at an alarming rate. Milan, the richest, largest archdiocese in Europe, documents the decline. In 1860 Milan had 1,168,063 Catholics and 2,470 priests, or one priest for every...
...Hoodlum Priest. A crude but telling Christian cops-and-robbers story that ends with the robber condemned to the gas chamber, and guilt assigned...