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...this terrible story presents a comparison with the state of the world today. The boy represents the despair and disillusionment so many feel in these times; the rabble below are the hell-bent millions who care for nothing but themselves and their pleasure; and the waitress and priest, and others who tried to save him, represent the feeble yet victorious forces of Christian principles...
...Even Die." Archbishop Grösz (rhymes, roughly, with worse) comes from the same region as Mindszenty, was bishop of Szombathely when Mindszenty served under him as a parish priest. Like peasant-born Joseph Mindszenty, whom he succeeded two years ago as head of the Roman Catholic church in Hungary, peasant-born Grösz is a man whose character and courage are beyond question. When in 1945 Nazi bullies broke into his palace at Kalocsa and ordered him with raised Tommy guns to get out of town, Grösz said: "I can face any kind of machine...
...would be a useful discipline if deacons were debarred from marrying, yet there were seven students' perambulators parked in my old theological college the other day. It is no reflection on the splendid wives of some of the clergy to say that most of them would be better priests if they were single. The bachelor priest is more mobile if necessary, but he tends to stay longer at his post and to be more contented with his house and his people. Whereas, if he is offered a better living, the Rev. Mr. Quiverfull never dares to refuse. A mission...
...Peking government's next step was the widespread publication of a manifesto supposedly written by one Wang Liang-tso, a young parish priest of Szechwan province, calling upon all Chinese Catholics to "build up a new church opposed to the imperialist conspiracy of aggression." The Communist press hailed Father Wang as the founder of an "independent Catholic Church movement...
Isle of Sinners. A stirring French movie (original title: God Needs Men), with Pierre Fresnay as a devout fisherman whose fellow islanders prod him into the sacrilege of serving as their priest (TIME, April...