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Father Leonard J. Feeney, excommunicated Roman Catholic priest, is moving away from Cambridge...
...success to believe it, the strongman ordered every newspaper in Venezuela to print frontpage editorials denouncing the uprising. Quick to refuse was the Rev. Jesús Hernández Chapellin, editor of the Roman Catholic daily La Religión. Pérez Jiménez jailed the priest, kept him jailed even after the government canceled its order to the press. At week's end, shorn of the belief that the armed forces were 100% behind him, and battling the Catholic Church, the pudgy dictator wore an unsettled look strangely reminiscent of Argentina's Juan...
...heavily Red region of Emilia, the funeral cortege, decked out with red banners, slogan-bearing streamers and a brass band, looks like a political rally. Prohibited by law from parading across holy ground, the procession stops at the churchyard fence-but not necessarily the propaganda. Not long ago the priest of Ruina Ferrarese (pop. 800) found that at least one gravestone in the cemetery behind his tiny church was decorated not with a cross but with hammer and sickle...
...news spread through the region, priests and mayors locked horns. "Politics cannot go beyond the tomb!" wrote a Red-strafing priest, Reggio Emilia's Don Wilson Pignanoli, in his paper. La Liberta. "Inquisition!" cried the party-lining Socialist paper, Avanti!. "It seems to us that a dying man should be able to choose for his tombstone the symbols he believed in while he lived, whether they are religious or political. What about the Star of David over tombs of Jews? And lamps which illuminate the headstones of free thinkers...
...have created an impression that the rabbis in Israel were heartless. In our religion, burial in a Jewish cemetery is a religious rite reserved to those who profess our faith. Since Aharon Steinberg was born of a non-Jewish mother, he was considered a non-Jewish child. The Catholic priest who refused the burial because the child was not baptized as a Catholic was following the tenets of his religion. Needless to say, it is natural for a religion to abide by its own tenets...