Word: priests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mondlane's enemies linked to the factional clashes was Father Ma-teus Gwengere, a militant Catholic priest who fled Mozambique in mid-1967 and since then had consistently opposed Mondlane. Last July, however, Mondlane seemed to have reconciled all the opposing factions within Frelimo. After persuading them that continued conflict could only harm their common cause, he went on to stage party elections in a "liberated area" of northern Mozambique. It was a dramatic propaganda victory, and Mondlane was confirmed as head of Frelimo. Nevertheless he was forced to expand the membership of Frelimo's executive committee...
...Never Too Late. "It was while I was-there that my father died. That was a very big blow." John Farrow's reputation as a roistering, reckless womanizer conflicted sharply with the strict, militant Catholicism he displayed at home. But Mia accepted what confounded his colleagues. "He was priest and lover, powerful and incompetent, strong and weak, a poet and a sailor. He was a very complicated man and I loved him very much." And her mother? "Well . . . like . . . my father was strict, and she was his wife...
Died. The Rev. Dominique Pire, 58, beneficent Belgian priest whose efforts to resettle war refugees won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1958; of a heart attack; in Louvain, Belgium. A Dominican scholar, Father Pire taught moral philosophy at the Huy monastery until World War II, when he served as chaplain to the Belgian underground. After the war, he traveled 250,000 miles to find foster homes for some 160,000 displaced persons; established seven refugee villages across Europe. In accepting the Nobel Prize, he reminded the world of Newton's sad observation that "men build too many walls...
...former clergymen, a representative sample compiled coast to coast from names supplied by agencies who help ex-priests adjust to secular life, found that their chief problems in obtaining jobs were lack of skills (28%), overcoming lack of confidence (29%) and deciding what new career to follow (47%). Although the average priest was 38 years old, only 14% found age to be a drawback. Nearly all held bachelor's or advanced degrees-four out of five in theology-but few felt that their specialized education created any employment obstacles...
...much beset by marriage-minded females, most of whom begin by writing unsolicited letters to him. One, a peasant girl named Thérèse Pantevin, informs Costals that because of his novels she envisions him as her spiritual savior; when he advises her to see her priest, she goes mad. Another, Andrée Hacquebaut, sets a new record in passionate penmanship for the mails (some 200 letters over a period of two years), first offering Costals her provincial, literate, blue-stocking soul and finally her awkward 30-year-old body...