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...Rome recently a woman finished her confession and waited for her penance. "You will say six Hail Marys," said the priest, "and knit me a sweater-long sleeves, please...
...Hoodlum Priest. A crude but telling Christian cops-and-robbers story that ends with the robber condemned to the gas chamber, and guilt assigned...
...There Was Elijah." Since most prisons have a large Negro population, prisons are a natural breeding ground for the hate group. Some of the leaders of the Muslim movement have criminal records. Elijah Muhammad (whose "slave-master name" was Elijah Poole), high priest of the Muslims, served three years for draft dodging in World War II. Malcolm X (ne Little), leader of Harlem's Muslims, is a former pimp, who has been arrested for larceny in two states. Says Dr. C. Eric Lincoln, professor of social philosophy at Atlanta's Clark College and an authority on Muslims...
...prosperity of parochial school systems varies considerably, but there is a consistent pattern. In any typical parish, the priest has the duty and obligation of providing schooling. He raises the operating expenses chiefly from the Sunday collection plate, getting contributions that would make almost any Protestant minister envious; he charges little or no tuition. Going heavily for him are two assets: he can get nun teachers at a board, room and stipend cost of only $650-$1,250 a year, and he can often tap diocesan funds for loans for building...
...opened in 1956. now has 900 students at a ratio of 56 to one teacher; many parents have put children in the better-staffed public schools. Especially in areas where Catholics are a small minority, as in Georgia, a possible "triple tax" seems the last straw. Says one Atlanta priest dispiritedly: "I'm afraid finances are going to rule us out of the education business...