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Paris' tough police force, bruised and angered by Communism's May 28 Ridgway riots, made a shocking discovery last week. Two of the rioters whom they locked up and manhandled were Catholic priests in workmen's clothes. Abbés Louis Bouyer, 35, and Bernard Cagne, 28, are ordained members of the Mission de Paris; like 85 other French "worker priests" (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950), they live and work with their flocks, do not always reveal themselves as priests, seek to convert by example as well as by precept. Bouyer earns his daily bread as a production...
Next morning at 9, the police commissioner called the abbés into his office. As the priests told it, the commissioner first remarked: "I'm an old seminarist myself. You are a partisan to violence instead of fraternity." Then he bopped Abbé Cagne on the head with one of the iron placards the Communists had used to beat up the cops. "I respect the priest, but not the man," roared the officer...
...Bouyer came next. "False priest, bandit, priest of Stalin," cried the police commissioner, "you want to destroy religion." He clubbed Bouyer in the back. "Do you approve of this?" an officer asked the abbé, pointing to the iron head of a Communist club. "No," quavered Bouyer, "but I understand it." The commissioner poked it in his stomach. "Go ahead, get the hell out of here...
...Roman Catholic priest and a psychiatrist have written a book that may solve, or at least clarify, some of the tension between their callings. Dr. Robert P. Odenwald, once a Berlin psychiatrist, now directs the Child Center at Washington's Catholic University. Father James H. VanderVeldt, a Dutch Franciscan and a Catholic University professor, formerly taught psychology in Rome; in 1931 he opened the church's first experimental-psychology laboratory there. In Psychiatry and Catholicism (McGraw-Hill; $6), the authors try to explain each to the other. With a preface by Washington's Archbishop Patrick...
...morning last week, when a priest came to unlock the grillwork for an 11 a.m. nuptial Mass, the crowns were gone. In the night, thieves had sawed out a section of the grille, reached in for the famous crowns. All that remained were a few diamonds and a broken piece of mounting, wrenched loose but left forgotten on the floor of Mary's shrine...