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Church authorities estimate that ideally there should be one priest for every 800 Catholics; worldwide, the ratio is now about one for every 1,300 Catholics-and it is getting worse. In 1966, the number of Catholics increased by 11,000,000; but the church gained only 5,000 new priests. Major crisis countries, said the cardinals, include France, Spain, Brazil, Argentina, and the U.S. According to the 1968 Official Catholic Directory, the nation's total of priests last year decreased by 89-the first drop since at least...
Highway regulations, the priest points out, derive from the Fifth Commandment, "Thou shall not kill," and for the careless driver he quotes St. Thomas Aquinas' stern dictum on carelessness: "He who allows certain events to happen which result in homicide by imprudence becomes guilty in a certain manner of premeditated homicide." The author even invokes the moral logic of Matthew 5: 28-"Everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart"-as making traffic violations sinful even if no smashup results. For example, contends Renard, "the motorist who gets ready to pass...
Died. The Rev. Aloysius S. Travers, 75, Philadelphia Roman Catholic priest, whose ever so brief career as major-league pitcher accounts for one of baseball's oldest and least wanted records-most runs given up in nine innings; of a kidney ailment; in Philadelphia. On May 18, 1912, when the Detroit Tigers angrily refused to play a game with the Athletics (after Ty Cobb was suspended for hitting a fan three days before), Travers, then a student at Philadelphia's St. Joseph's College, was one of a group of sandlotters recruited to face...
Died. Canon Felix Kir, 92, French Roman Catholic priest famed as a war hero and politician, and remembered as the namesake of a smooth potion concocted of white wine and currant or blackberry liqueur; of injuries suffered in a fall; in Dijon. Tough-minded and sharp-tongued, Kir (rhymes with hear) took over the mayoralty of Dijon (pop. 96,000) in 1940, when city officials fled the Germans, and led the local resistance throughout the war. Dijon's citizens voted him in as mayor in every election from 1945 to the present, and though he often proved a thorn...
...past too much has been forbidden. Over the whole group hovers the satanic, death-worshiping Freddy Thorne. He is a dentist by trade, but in fact he is a faithless St. Augustine indulging his "hyena appetite for dirty truths" in his role as Updike's designated "priest" to the tribe. "He thinks we're a magic circle of heads to keep the night out," says Angela Hanema. "He thinks we've made a church of one another...