Word: priests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legacy to the world was a strange, convoluted novel called Hadrian the Seventh, in which the frustrated priest developed a fantasy of being called first to the cloth and then to the Throne of St. Peter - becoming the second English Pope in history...
...Tension between priests and bishops will also grow. Greeley believes that "the present very moderate and sensible leadership of the priest organizations will be replaced by a much more radical leadership and that confrontations between bishops and clergy will be more frequent and more severe. In many parts of the country the bishops will find themselves isolated from their priests and people...
...that dark moment of fear and distrust, which could have changed in a second to become hatred and terror. But we made the love connection. The flicker in the dark. Suddenly, the sun came out in the room and I felt great and I knew he did too. High Priest, by Timothy Leary...
...ordained Anglican priest and a professor of comparative religion at the University of Manchester, Brandon is not the first to make this case, but he has marshaled the best arguments for it. In Jesus and the Zealots (Scnbners; $7.95) and The Trial of Jesus of Nazareth (Stein & Day; $6.95), Brandon pictures Jesus as a politically aware activist vigorously working against the Palestinian "Establishment"-the Roman occupying forces and Jerusalem's collaborationist Jewish aristocracy. As a champion of the poor, says Brandon, Jesus went so far as to lead an abortive raid on the Temple treasury to dispossess its money...
Insulting Attitude. Father Mazzi's troubles began last September, when a group of left-wing Catholic laymen in nearby Parma briefly occupied the city's cathedral to protest what they called "episcopal authoritarianism." Mazzi, along with three other priests and 150 Florentine laymen, sent the rebels a letter of support. Florence's archbishop, Ermenegildo Cardinal Florit, then wrote Mazzi, reproving him for "an insulting attitude to the authority of the church." Florit ordered the priest to retract his letter or resign. Mazzi refused, and 108 priests of the city petitioned the cardinal to re-examine his condemnation...