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...best-known Roman Catholic priest in Germany today is Father Johannes Leppich, 40, whom the Communists denounce as the "Black Goebbels," and conservative Catholics call the "Red Father." Leppich moves tirelessly across the country, preaching and demanding help for the poor. To spread his gospel, Jesuit Leppich has used posters, picture slides, and last week he was busy with a new evangelical idea: "confession" by telephone...
...priest question touched on an old issue. Episcopalians consider themselves Catholic, believing that their church as much as Rome is the true spiritual heir of St. Peter. To stress this point, some Episcopalians prefer not to call themselves Protestants at all. At Northfield the delegates considered a motion recommending that "Protestant" be dropped from the title of the Protestant Episcopal Church. But the Young Churchmen voted it down, 172 to 127, expressed their position in a song (to the tune of God Bless America...
...scruples on these scores should never be allowed to prevent the administration of baptism altogether. Our Blessed Lord was insistent that little children be allowed to come to Him. For a priest to repel an infant from the font means that he shoulders a responsibility which few indeed . . . can be willing to bear...
...proceeds of which have rebuilt his war-damaged church, erected a dispensary and brought nursing sisters to his village. Simon announced his intention of trying his luck in another diocese. "It is true I am an athlete," he said, "but above all else I am a priest who is interested in furthering the well-being of the less well-off members of my parish...
...Father Charles is a forlorn priest who has become the laughingstock of his parish because of his remarkable resemblance to Cinemactor Fernandel as a priest in The Little World of Don Camilla (TIME, Jan. 19, 1953). Gloomily surrounded by packed suitcases, he is about to grow a beard and go to live among the Eskimos when the godfather arrives...