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...Princeton campus has been the scene over the last year and a half of a rancorous religious dispute that would have been more plausible in Wurtenberg than in Princeton. The conflict featured an urbane Catholic priest pitted against the University's Department of Religion...
...stormy petrel on the Princeton campus is Father Hugh Halton, a Dominican priest with a long chain of academic degrees and a penchant for being a "born controversialist." As chaplain to the Catholic students at the University and head of the campus Aquinas Foundation, he is the religious spokesman of a sizeable minority at the University...
...Moslem conquest, which took Islam to the Pyrenees and beyond them into France. The Cross had emerged triumphant from the blood bath of Roman persecution. Why had it fallen before the Prophet's sword? In The Call of the Minaret (Oxford University Press; $6.25), published last fortnight, Anglican priest and Moslem scholar Kenneth Cragg blames not Moslem power but Christian failure for the rise of Islam. "It was a failure in love, in purity, and in fervor, a failure of the spirit," he argues. "Islam developed in an environment of imperfect Christianity...
...people go regularly to the doctor on any excuse, but the reason for their attendance in the congregation within the waiting room is that they are seeking from the doctor the sort of spiritual comfort and personal guidance which, a few generations ago, they used to obtain from the priest...
Died. James Percy Priest, 56, craggy, countrified onetime (1926-40) reporter for the Nashville Tertnessean, who resigned (1940) when Democrat Joseph W. Byrns, his paper's candidate for re-election from Tennessee's Fifth Congressional District, voted to delay the draft for 60 days, ran and beat Byrns as a New Dealing independent, was elected seven more times, won respect from both parties as Democratic whip (1949-53), chairman of the House Committee on Foreign and Interstate Commerce (since 1953), and as a campaigner for public health measures; after surgery for a duodenal ulcer; in Nashville...