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...refugee from Communist Poland recently reached Munich. He was a Roman Catholic priest, 30-odd years old, and he had come to tell West and East, via Radio Free Europe, about the struggle of his church for survival. In Poland, a strongly Catholic country, the Communists have not dared to outlaw religion, but they hope to suffocate it by continual restrictions. The priest's story...
...Children. "The worst trouble," the priest said, "is with the youngest children in the primary schools. A little girl once asked me: 'Father, why do those bad Americans poison the poor Korean children? Why do they put insects in the water?' You have to be in Poland to appreciate the difficulty of answering such questions. Some crazy [Communist] teacher had stuffed the children's ears with this nonsense. If I say that the teacher lies, the child will tell her at the first opportunity, 'Father said you were lying.' That is why I patted...
...with machine-gun precision, hitting the bang-board with a new ear every second or oftener. "Oiyoiyoi, oiyoiyoi!" shrilled one of the astounded French farmers, seizing his spinning head in both hands. When all the corn was husked, everybody gathered around to try out the hooks. Even the local priest joined in the trials, while Elmer passed out pencils stamped with his picture...
...headed for studies and pleasure at the University of Paris. He was 23, a tutor and a convivial man about town, when he met his fellow Basque, Ignatius Loyola, who was to be the founder of the Society of Jesus. After that, his life changed. Sixteen years later, a priest and a single-minded evangelist, he left Lisbon on a Portuguese carrack to found the Jesuit missions in Asia. He never returned to Europe...
...Devils of Loudun, by Aldous Huxley. A skillful account of the epidemic of devil-possession which beset the French town of Loudun in the i/th century, and of the rash priest who burned for it (TIME...