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...Misgivings about this scriptural 'new look' are being voiced more and more among educated American Catholics," according to Jesuit Francis L. Filas, chairman of the department of theology at Chicago's Loyola University, writing in The Priest. "Shock and surprise have occurred" among "priests, nuns, college students, and even the general public," says Father Filas, from such statements as: "1) The angel Gabriel never made any annunciation to Mary. Luke's account is a pious meditation enlarging on the single fact of the Incarnation, which is the only fact of which we can be certain...
...Miss Kimball was her voice teacher; unofficially, she counseled her on how to dress and carry herself, how to handle the social perplexities of a Northern city. Says a Juilliard friend: "Lee used to go to Miss Kimball the way other people would take to a psychiatrist or a priest." Miss Kimball still coaches Leontyne. makes critical notes at her rehearsals, will travel almost anywhere-as will the Chisholms-to hear her perform...
...Hoodlum Priest. A bewildered boy, entrapped by life, finally finds freedom in the gas chamber. Crude and violent, Irvin Kershner's drama nonetheless shows that the divine spark can burn in trash...
BRATTLE: Robert Bresson's sive and somewhat improbable war exploration of the problem a young curate, DIARY O COUNTRY PRIEST, continues...
...Bresson, his priest, and his parishioners are trapped in an embarrassing slough of original sin. And there seems little hope for any of them. The countess dies with a renewed faith, but the priest confesses that "I have imparted a peace I do not myself possess." The central figure of the priest is disturbingly ambiguous: lonely and unable to communicate, he becomes increasingly certain of his own ineptness. But one feels that successful communication with these parishioners would only insure eventual damnation; the failure of his mission cannot, ultimately, be called a tragic one. The curate's confusion leads...