Word: priests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moral & Misanthrope. The new songs are shapely and graceful, but their simplicity is deceptive. Several of them are suffused with religious feeling-a sorrowing series of meditations on the Christian ethic, outlined in a language that is close to simplistic. One, The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest, is a parable on temptation: Judas lures Jesus into a bawdyhouse, where he dies. "The moral of this story, the moral of this song,/Is simply that one should never be where one does not belong." I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine, an easygoing paraphrase of Joe Hill, becomes a jeremiad...
...Hindu mysticism; its followers peruse the writings of a gallery of gurus, ranging from the popular Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (TIME, Oct. 20) to Swami A. C. Bhaktivedanta of Bengal. A third source of spiritual insight is Zen Buddhism, as promulgated by Oriental Scholar Alan Watts, a one-time Anglican priest who lives on a houseboat in San Francisco...
Unchallenged Principle. Even in an age when Catholic theologians are willing to challenge almost every other established doctrine or discipline, no one has yet challenged the principle that private confessions should be secret. Under church law, a priest may be automatically excommunicated if he divulges any information told him by a penitent -and deviations from the rule are al most nonexistent. Protestant ministers are equally circumspect regarding personal matters discussed with parishioners. The privilege of the confessional is acknowledged by courts in most West ern countries. In West Germany, for example, both Catholic and Protestant clerics - as well as psychiatrists...
Essential to Integrity. Since Bartsch admitted that he had told a priest of the first killing, letters have poured into German newspapers, protesting that had the confessor not remained silent, the three other boys might be alive today. Nonetheless, Catholic priests and Protestant ministers have overwhelmingly defended the priest and confessional secrecy. On purely practical grounds, they contend, the secret confession probably prevents far more crimes than it hides, by providing an emotional outlet for disturbed persons...
Married. James Kavanaugh, 38, dis illusioned Roman Catholic, ex-priest anc author (A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church); and Patricia Waiden, 35, a San Diego nurse; in an Episcopal ceremony; in La Jolla, Calif