Word: priests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Open City. The story behind this movie is as remarkable as the film itself--Roberto Rossellini made it while the Germans still occupied Rome in 1945. The plot anticipates the Historic Compromise; a priest and a Communist partisan cooperate to combat fascism...
Among three generals elected was Nino Pasti, former NATO deputy supreme commander for nuclear affairs, who ran for the Senate as an independent on the Communist ticket. Former EEC Commissioner Altiero Spinelli and all six of the prominent Roman Catholic laymen (plus a Waldensian priest), who defied Pope Paul VI by running under the sign of the hammer and sickle, also won seats in Parliament. Narrowly defeated, however, was Communist-sponsored Independent Gillo Pontecorvo, the film director whose credits include The Battle of Algiers...
Methodism began when Oxford-trained John Wesley, newly back from a missionary tour in Georgia, felt his heart "strangely warmed" during a reading of Luther's preface to Romans at a service in London in 1738. Unlike the usual Anglican priest, Wesley set out to spread assurance of salvation to Britons of all classes. Still indefatigable at his 73rd birthday last month, Wesley also insists on "doing good of every possible sort" for the needy. He requires a puritanical code of his flock: no swearing, Sabbath work, buying or selling liquor, brawling, or wearing of rich apparel...
While a political revolution has been in the making, a religious revolution has stirred Virginia, where many of the tax-supported Anglican clergy are known locally for their laziness, snobbery and even immorality. Indeed, many back-country Virginians never see an Anglican priest at all. Jarratt was shocked by the clerical convention in Williamsburg two years ago when his colleagues treated Christian doctrines with what he called "ridicule and profane burlesque...
Still, few men take as harsh a view of medicine as Ivan Illich, 51, a Viennese-born priest who now makes his home in Cuernavaca. Mexico. An iconoclast who has already attacked another major institution in his 1971 diatribe Deschooling Society, Illich zeroes in on the health industry in his newest attack and leaves no doubt as to how he regards the target. "The medical establishment," he writes in Medical Nemesis opening sentence, "has become a major threat to health...