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...turned out to be a 75-minute work of massive and somber effect, full of vocal know-how and modern coloration, but weak in dramatic contrast. In most of the first act Joan prepares for her fatal final appearance before her inquisitors, and a kindly priest beseeches her in mellow song to temper her heresy. Its moment of pathos comes near act's end, as Joan refuses to exchange her male clothes for a dress, and the episode closes with music of real poignance. Act II moves more swiftly as Joan clashes violently with Bishop Pierre Cauchon, the only...
Back last week from a short sojourn in the South was the Rev. Trevor Huddleston, Anglican priest of the Community of the Resurrection who has become a symbol and rallying point of resistance to apartheid in South Africa, where he has been stationed for twelve years. In Africa, whence his superiors have recently recalled him to England, white supremacists viewed him with alarm as a kamrboetie (roughly, nigger-lover) and predicted he would not be allowed to visit the U.S. Southern states, let alone be permitted to speak there. But Father Huddleston was able to travel and to talk with...
...south ballroom of Washington's Willard Hotel one night last week, a stocky, wavy-haired Dominican priest rose from his seat at the head table. As 800 guests burst out cheering, he made his way to the speaker's stand to receive the highest honor Catholic University alumni can pay. At 69, the Very Rev. Ignatius Smith, dean of C.U.'s School of Philosophy, became the ninth recipient of the Cardinal Gibbons medal, "for distinguished and meritorious service to the United States of America, the Catholic Church or the Catholic University of America." Though better-known...
...prophecy was carried out. A bolt of lightning crashed into Eyobélé's hut, and a moment later nine women lay dead around the bier. Last week Bokouélé was a ghost village, in which Father Benoit Gassongo, the Roman Catholic priest and teacher, stirred among the vacant seats of the mission school and said his Mass in the empty chapel...
Compounding his problems, Richer, as a disciplinary measure, denied one of his students permission to attend a released-time religion class, thus antagonizing the local Roman Catholic priest. Later he called on the priest to explain that he had not realized that the religion period was mandatory, but made it clear in passing that he was opposed to the released-time idea anyway...