Word: priests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Second Vatican Council to put greater emphasis on "the paschal character of Christian death," more and more bishops are allowing an experimental "white funeral," a service as different from the old requiem Mass as Easter is from Good Friday. Dressed in white vestments instead of the traditional black, the priest meets the coffin at the church door, recalling the rite of baptism that ties the Christian to Jesus. "If in union with Christ we have imitated his death," declares the priest, quoting St. Paul, "we shall also imitate him in his Resurrection." During the service, a white pall covers...
...victims in Biafra: "Their bellies were as large as a pregnant woman's, their limbs like matchsticks, and some had testicles swollen to the size of a large grapefruit." His ear is attuned to the poignant quote, such as the plea of a starving boy who approached a priest and asked: "Father, what is happening to my body?" He lets unadorned facts convey his anger. After a Nigerian plane bombed a civilian marketplace, Churchill noted that "there were so many unattached feet, hands, legs and arms that it was impossible to tell to which body they belonged...
...author of this hedonistic, gormandizing prayer is a Christian clergyman of serene faith. For 20 years, Robert Farrar Capon, 43, has been an Episcopal priest in Port Jefferson, N.Y., an old Long Island shipbuilding town on the edge of the Manhattan commuter belt. He lives with his wife Peg, their six children, two cats (named Anthony and Bartholomew) and a nondescript dog in a century-old house adjoining his small white clapboard church. At dinner time, the sweet cooking aromas wafting out of the old rectory hint at the true nature of a man who is no ordinary country vicar...
...Brothers Comedy Hour. Two of last month's Tonight Show guest hosts, Bill Cosby and Jerry Lewis, made public apologies for ill-received wisecracks, which had nothing to do with sex or violence. At the N.A.B. convention, the industry's nervous mood was apotheosized by one Catholic priest who, in a luncheon invocation, prayed that God sympathize with "oppressed broadcasters-accused of aiding and abetting materialism, perversion, violence and crime...
Keneally is what the Irish call a spoiled priest-after years of novitiate, he did not take his final vows. Thus his fictional priests are drawn from knowledge, not research. His protagonist, James Maitland, with a fresh doctorate from Louvain, is a 29-year-old priest teaching history in a Catholic House of Studies. Set off as it is against the Mediterranean glitter of Sydney's splendid harbor and the sunburned hedonists who inhabit it, this comfortless, twilit gothic barracks with an "eczema of stained glass," emphasizes one of the book's controlling ironies. For Maitland fits neither...