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...solitary confinement, manacled wrist and ankle. Last week, on Haiti's Ile de la Tortue (Turtle Island), Roger Riou was no longer fighting cops. Instead, he was ministering to the people's spiritual needs and physical ailments. The ex-kid brawler is now a Roman Catholic priest as well as a physician...
...that Communism was the answer to mankind's problems. During the long hours of his stretch in solitary at reform school Roger began to doubt Red doctrine. Later, the sympathetic director of the school persuaded him that he could do more for humanity by becoming a priest than by passing out Communist pamphlets...
Ambo was ordained a priest, together with his brother, in 1958. His first assignment was Boiani, fourth largest Anglican mission district in the diocese. To tend its 7,000 natives, scattered through the rugged southern reaches of the Owen Stanley mountain range, Ambo often swam storm-swollen rivers in his shorts, was lucky to cover 20 miles in two days of tramping...
...other schools with bright new reputations are making too many good offers. Rival recruiters score points by warning boys that Notre Dame's strait-laced supervision eliminates a carefree campus life; e.g., freshmen have a 10 p.m. curfew. After one mauling of Notre Dame this year, a Chicago priest cracked to a Protestant friend: "I didn't mind so much that the lad was kicking those extra points against Notre Dame, but I did mind his crossing himself before each...
Funeral directors, according to Jubilee, are increasingly substituting for clergymen, "choosing the music (preferably not hymns-too depressing) and thermostatically regulating the level of grief ('empathy is more professional than sympathy'). Sometimes, in their role as priest-substitutes, the more far-out directors run into trouble with the real thing. One we met said, 'Sometimes you run into off-beat ideas from some of these ministers who think that the soul leaves the body and the body is just like a rind that can be thrown away after death.' His reaction to this brush with...