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...brisk, enthusiastic French priest stepped jauntily ashore in Shanghai to begin his career as a Vincentian missionary. For the next 46 years, Father Adolph Buch kept himself busy teaching, preaching, training young Chinese priests, organizing medical dispensaries, and helping to care for the sick, the poor and the helpless. In the midst of his tasks, he found time to become a collector of butterflies as well...
...wizened, bent and benign old man of 87, Adolph Buch came shuffling up the dirt road to Lowu Bridge that leads out of Red China into free Hong Kong. He no longer had even his butterflies. Communist customs officials had taken them away. "Imagine it," said the old priest. "They accused me of wanting to send my collection to the States, to be sent back laden with germs...
...McVinney gave the people of his diocese one of the most severe interpretations of divorce laws yet laid down. Among them: ¶Catholic lawyers are forbidden "under pain of mortal sin" to represent plaintiffs in suits for separation, divorce or annulment of a marriage performed by a Catholic priest, unless they obtain prior permission of their bishop...
...attending a wedding party, giving a wedding gift). ¶Catholics who are themselves invalidly married may not act as witnesses, ushers, or bridesmaids at a Catholic wedding. Similarly, all Catholics are forbidden to act as witnesses, ushers or bridesmaids at weddings which are not performed by a Catholic priest...
...parish priest slapped whitewash on the fearful roster, and the villagers clamped their jaws shut and tried to forget it. But five months later the man named first on the list was shot to death in the woods. A shepherd and a woman followed him to their graves soon afterward. Then, in July 1950, the police caught up with Outlaw Liandru and clapped him into jail...