Word: priests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another denomination." Young's flock calls him Brother rather than the "Doctor" to which he is entitled (he has an M.A. from Vanderbilt University and a Ph.D. from George Peabody College), because the Churches of Christ play down the difference between clergy and laymen. "Each individual is a priest," Young explains. "We encourage them to influence their friends and acquaintances...
Hollywood long ago discovered that priests and nuns were box office. Protestants were tossed a few films such as A Man Called Peter and Battle Hymn, but it was the Roman collar that looked best on Bing Crosby, Spencer Tracy and Pat O'Brien-not to mention Barry Fitzgerald, Van Johnson, Paul Douglas, Gregory Peck, Charles Boyer, Montgomery Clift, Henry Fonda, Charles Bickford, Karl Maiden, and even Humphrey Bogart and Frank Sinatra. All this adds up to vulgar exploitation of the Roman Catholic Church, says Film Critic Robert Brizzolara of The Voice of St. Jude, national magazine...
...Catholics who argue that it is good public relations for the church to show that priests and nuns are human, Brizzolara reports that "unfortunately, their humanity is all such movies can depict and thus give us only half a priest or half a nun . . . The best [Hollywood] can hope for is to show Father as a 'real Joe,' and Sister as a 'good egg,' naive, perhaps, but wisecracking, gay, dedicated-always the part, never the whole...
...quiet life with his attractive wife (Nightclub Singer Flor Silvestre), two small children and their pet parrots, baby lamb and two horses. He gets 1,000 fan letters a week, and is quick to put in a good-and powerful-word for good causes. When he introduced a priest who was struggling to raise a tiny church, the building fund was oversubscribed by the next day's mail. Once he put an agonized mother on his program to appeal for the return of her kidnaped child. When she got home from the television studio, the baby...
...fissure seemed to be opening between Poland's Cardinal Wyszynski and the Communist government of Wladyslaw Gomulka. Recently the cardinal used the pages of a Roman Catholic weekly to warn that any priest collaborating with the Communist-run "religious" organization called Pax would risk "canonical sanctions." The regime suppressed the issue, ordered the newspaper banned from all newsstands and bookstores-a surprise to Polish churchmen who noted that even Communist publications have recently been critical...