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...your excellent review of The Phenomenon of Man by the late Father Teilhard de Chardin [Dec. 14], it is interesting that this perceptive priest has restated so clearly a number of old ideas: 1) His concept of a "thinking envelope" or"noosphere" surrounding the earth, 2) the evolution of consciousness culminating in self-awareness, 3) the apparent plurality but fundamental unity of everything in a universe held together by an inexorably harmonious binding force (love...
When they were settled, the priest appeared before them, tears streaming down his cheeks. Not only did he confess to the affair, but admitted that Theodora had borne him an infant daughter. Then, white-faced, he went on to describe how he had tried to strangle "the fruit of my sin" with his own hands. When the strength drained out of his hands, he had seized the belt of Theodora's cotton dress and wrapped it around the baby's neck until life was extinct. As Father John finished his tale and stumbled toward the door, his stunned...
...priest disappeared inside his two-story house, and soon a crowd gathered around it. Finally, a window flew open, and there stood Father John clasping a small bottle in his hand. "Take it!" he cried, flinging it down. "Now you can laugh. Now you can gossip. I do not care any more. I have taken poison and am dying." When they got to him, he was already unconscious, and shortly he died...
...unmourned Fourth Republic. At passionate issue in the National Assembly was a bill to give state aid to church schools, the touchiest of all domestic questions in France for a century and a half. It is an issue that echoes in almost every village, where unrelenting antagonism exists between priest and public schoolmaster, who is usually a Socialist or a Communist. At first the leftist anticlerical wing in the Cabinet seemed to be having its way (TIME, Dec. 28), and would put over its proposal that churches must accept state supervision if they took the $60 million...
...baby was dead-"the victim of a senseless rite," as Moscow's daily Sovietskaya Rossiya put it. Called before a People's Court, Father Scherbatov denied his guilt, contended that the child was ill and would have died anyway. But medical investigators disputed him, and the priest was sentenced to three years in jail. The people of Magnitogorsk, said Sovietskaya Rossiya, were highly satisfied with the sentence...