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Fortunately not all Roman Catholics are like Cardinal Stritch. I suspect there are some dissenters even among the clergy of his own archdiocese. We have a good friend, a Jesuit priest, with whom we have limited ecumenical relations on the rice-roots level. We even pray together on occasion, and pray God's blessing on each other's work. We believe this is what our common Lord desires of His catholic church...
...monsoon rains, superstitious Bandit Man Singh was still going strong last week. He had prepared a sacrifice to the goddess Kali; tied to stakes before a stone idol were two terrified Indian policemen. While dacoits, members of Man Singh's band of robbers, chanted hymns, a priest reverently bathed the idol's feet, then sprinkled water from the same pitcher on the victims...
...Orestean hero (Marlon Brando), an ex-pug who has-not quite unwittingly-served as bait in the murder trap, is pursued by the Furies of remorse in the singularly amiable form of the dead man's sister (Eva Marie Saint) and in the sterner shape of a waterfront priest (Karl Maiden...
...their homes and churches to move south, or to stay and face the possibility of martyrdom at the hands of the Reds. Anti-Communist Vietnamese reported last week that Catholics in the north must already pay fees to attend Mass or wear crosses. A report from a Spanish Dominican priest at Namdinh was released by the Vatican. "Let us hope," he wrote, "that their faith will not fail before persecution...
Songo, now 25, developed his creative ability in the eight years that he has been at Cyrene, the church school for 320 Negro boys. A government school inspector brought him from his farming village to grizzled Canon Edward Paterson, an artist-priest who founded Cyrene in 1940. He was a half-starved boy in grey rags, and so helpless that he had to be wheeled to classes in an old baby carriage. But Sam, who showed surprising aptitude for drawing, soon told the canon: "I can carve." Paterson wisely refrained from giving the crippled young Negro any formal art training...