Word: priests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...embassy, and those who did were tense and anxious. In one pew, a young Vietnamese girl and her brother, both refugees and no older than 14, sat alone. She wept openly, and the boy held her hand throughout the service. "Amid great stress and suffering," intoned the Anglican priest, "we come to a celebration of life-baptism." Then he sprinkled holy water on an adult Vietnamese convert and christened him Michael...
...large measure the refugee tide could not be explained in such rational terms. "It was hard to say what started it," said a Catholic priest who had escaped from one of the suddenly lost provinces of South Viet Nam, "but panic set off panic." The flight seemed to overtake everything in its path, engulfing military commanders as well as shopkeepers, peasants and schoolteachers. It uprooted entire towns and villages overnight, causing even greater fear. It mercilessly tore families apart and destroyed the trust and friendship that had been built up between individual Americans and Vietnamese during the past decade...
...17th parallel. That earlier exodus was organized and dominated by Catholics and anti-Communists and was encouraged by the Saigon regime of Ngo Dinh Diem. There was a great deal of propaganda at the time, and some not so subtle rumor mongering. Father Nguyen Dinh Thi, a priest who was part of that flight but who now lives in Paris, claims that some superstitious Catholic peasants were told that Our Lady of Fatima expected the faithful to go south and that, "if they did not, they would be turning their back on her and on their religion." Some...
...husbands and wives write their comments. Through the day, reticence gradually recedes, and by nightfall the couples are primed for a presentation on Christ's presence at the wedding feast at Cana (John 2). Then, in a room dimly lit by a few lamps and candles, the priest asks the couples to share their feelings and tell what they are experiencing. A young teacher speaks up: "Tonight, for the first time since we were married seven years ago, I told my wife that I loved her, straight to her face." Another husband tells the group, "I'm still...
Besides renewing individual marriages, the two Encounter movements hope also to renew and strengthen the Catholic Church. Says Father Ed Schramm, executive priest at Worldwide headquarters: "The future of the church is in the deeper appreciation of relationships, and Marriage Encounter can be a gift in speaking what that means. To me, it takes the words of Paul about loving as Christ loved and that nothing else really matters. Those words jump alive when a couple sees that loving each other really makes a difference and that the world needs that in them...