Word: priests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...secular spirit, a procession of toys emerges from the sacristy; Teddy bears, dolls and soldiers move up the center aisle. Right in the middle of it all, decked out in spangles and waving a glowing magic wand, is the Blue Angel -Father Quinlan, of course. Santa Claus (an assistant priest) joins the march as it heads back toward the altar. Quinlan ducks out, then reappears in festive liturgical vestments, mercifully putting Christ back into Christmas...
...freedom. He appointed six women to distribute Communion and allowed worsinpers to receive the home-baked Communion bread in their hands-contrary to the U.S. inerarchy's ban against the practice. ins adult-education series became a standard stop on the religious Chautauqua circuit for speakers like Activist Priest James Groppi, Feminist Theologian Rosemary Ruether and assorted Protestant scholars. To help inm lead ins renewal, Quinlan expanded an embryo parish council into a vigorous 37-member body and hammered out programs with it in lively meetings that sometimes broke up at 1:30 a.m. Laymen, he counseled, "cannot...
...Artic climate, the long winters and loneliness of vast expanses of wasteland have traditionally inspired in inhabitants a fear of the supernatural. Yet old superstitions seem to have died out on the whole and have been replaced by Roman Catholicism. Twice a year, the Belgian Roman Catholic priest from La Romaine spends a week in the tiny church which the St. Augustine Indians built for themselves under his supervision. To make up for lost time, he performs continuous masses, weddings and baptisms--all in Algonquian, the language spoken by the tribes of the sub-Arctic cultural area south and east...
Rumsfeld's arrival coincided with the long-overdue departure of some hard-core Nixon holdovers, who were finally eased out last week. Among the resignations announced: Father John McLaughlin, a Jesuit priest who had offended his own order by so tenaciously defending Nixon's morals; Richard Moore, a presidential counsel who is reportedly to be added to the list of unindicted co-conspirators in the Watergate cover-up trial; Bruce Herschensohn, an assistant who was in charge of coordinating public support for Nixon...
...Nixon has not forgiven himself," observes Maryknoll Priest-Psychologist Eugene Kennedy. "He has not admitted that he is capable of evil, that he has hurt countless persons. Forgiveness is a tough existential transition." Divine forgiveness is the model for human pardon, notes Church Historian Martin Marty, a Lutheran, and involves "an annihilation of what the sinner was. God completely wipes the slate clean. But that only happens if there is repentance, an about-face, a 180° turn. There is no evidence that the former President is doing anything of the kind." Nixon's attitude, complains Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, president...