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Young Father Bissonnette had looked forward to a routine departure this spring, when another Assumptionist priest was to replace him. The sudden expulsion was obviously an act of retaliation for U.S. refusal to extend the visitor's visa of Metropolitan Boris, Exarch of the Russian Orthodox Church of North America, who left Manhattan last week after his prescribed stay of 60 days...
...agreement and was "in no way related to cases of temporary visits" like that of Metropolitan Boris. In Moscow Father Bissonnette sadly said a last Mass in his apartment for 20-odd members of his flock. He advised them to turn for spiritual guidance to the Russian priest of the Church of St. Louis, Moscow's only Roman Catholic Church. Said Father Bissonnette: "If you do not speak Russian or Polish and have trouble with the language, just say 'Ya vinovat' (I am guilty), and he will understand and give you absolution...
...shouts. When a pompous canon told some of the characters: "The Church is ashamed of you, the bishop is ashamed of you, and I am ashamed of you," somebody bellowed from the gallery, "And we are ashamed of you!" Protests also rose when O'Casey's unorthodox priest (a sympathetic character) urged a girl to seek release from her "foolish vows" of chastity...
...receiving in her arms a cadaverous figure of a man, which, explains Epstein, "is man-child returning to its eternal mother, which is Mother Earth. It encompasses life and death." Still to be erected at week's end was an elongated Christlike figure raising a degraded man. A priest, stopping by Epstein's studio while this figure was being modeled, asked Epstein if it represented Christ healing the leper. Epstein allows that the priest was on the right track, but he insists that all his figures are symbolic, not literal representations...
Originator of the weekly lunchtime sessions is Bangor's mild-mannered School Superintendent Homer Hendricks, 40, a Methodist. After hearing a talk by a local Roman Catholic priest stressing the need for closer ties between Bangor's churches and its youngsters, Hendricks decided to fill the gap. With the support of local clergymen and parents, he made available each Tuesday a classroom for any minister who would spend the 45-minute lunch recess with pupils of his faith. Attendance is entirely voluntary. For the first sessions, held early last month, 100 pupils showed up, some with their Bibles...