Word: priests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whatever Happened to the Veterans?" [Jan. 5]: an excellent article. If I hadn't been a G.I., I wouldn't be a Jesuit now. Our seminaries were crowded with vets after World War II. Last year saw our 100th vet ordained a priest; 1959 will see another 100 ordained...
...under the personal command of Fidel's brother Raul, 28, a slit-eyed man who had already executed 30 "informers" during two years of guerrilla war. Raul's firing squads worked in relays, and they worked hour after hour. Said Raul: "There's always a priest on hand to hear the last confession...
...priest led two of the prisoners through the glare of truck headlights to the edge of the trench and then stepped back. Six rebel executioners fired, and the bodies jackknifed into the grave. Two more prisoners stepped forward, then two more and two more-and the grave slowly filled. Lieut. Enrique Despaigne, charged with 53 murders, got a three-hour reprieve at the request of TV cameramen, who wanted the light of a full dawn...
...hunting in the mountains where he would one day return, an outlaw. From the age of eight he spent most of his time at a Roman Catholic boarding school in Santiago ; his younger brother Raul, a quarrelsome, envious youngster of five, tagged along. "For the next eleven years," a priest recalls, "we Jesuits had Fidel...
...church can expect such sacrifice on a large scale, and Roman Catholics are following the same line as the Protestants. "We don't expect all Catholics to be saints and martyrs," said one priest last week. "The church is not a society of the elect. If a Catholic wavers under the pressure of a dictatorial state, sins and repents, the door is open...