Word: priests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...local minister with portfolio" and describes him as "the best thing hereabouts since polio vaccine. His ministrations have been no less than providential." Douglas came up with lots of seemingly helpful advice. He said that when he told Berrigan that the Washington caper would necessarily entail some violence, the priest agreed. Berrigan also agreed, said Douglas, to using a gun "but suggested the possible use of blanks. I advised him that I was sure I could obtain...
...When Pope Paul promised in a "pastoral instruction" last summer to improve the often sluggish flow of Vatican news. Press Spokesman Father Edward L. Heston insisted that the Holy See would practice what it preached. Heston, 64, an American priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, was soon named president of the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications. Since then, Rome newsmen have noted an improvement in the release of Vatican information. Yet Heston observed recently: "Often a sergeant is capable of doing as good a job as a general, but he can't because he doesn't have...
FATHER JAMES H. Flye taught Agee as a young boy at St. Andrews in Swanee. Tennessee, and later was his traveling companion on a bicycle trip through France and England in the summer of 1925. "An Article of Faith", written by the new eighty-six year-old priest is a friendly, if somewhat vague reminiscence about the clearly unusual boy that Agee must have been. It is written in the same expansive, liturgical style that Agee was himself to adopt. Out of Father Flye's anonymous compassion, one reads the cosmic compassion that marks Agee's earlier prose, moving into...
Diary of a Country Priest, by Robert Bresson. Harvard-Epworth Church. 7, Feb. 24. $1. Paisan, by Roberto Rossellini. 7, Feb. 27. Free...
...other hand, Greeley attacked the widely held notion that priests as a group are more frustrated, more lonely or more immature than other segments of the U.S. population. Far from being irrelevant, he argued, the priest's profession is a newly vital one. Today's priest is alive in "the most religious time in human history." People are no longer born into a given set of beliefs that can be expected to claim their lifelong loyalty. "There are other choices available," said Greeley, "and it is a very heavy burden to have to choose. Questions of meaning...