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...same time, another victim of St. Augustine's racial hatred, the Rev. Charles M. Seymour Jr., was fighting a different battle-to stay in his pulpit. Father Seymour, for 15 years rector of St. Augustine's Trinity Episcopal Church, had admitted Negroes to services a week before, now was under attack by the church's vestry, who were pressuring him to resign. Last week Florida's Episcopal bishop, the Right Rev. Edward Hamilton West, gave Father Seymour his "absolute support." Said Seymour: "The doors of the Episcopal Church are open to anyone, any time...
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...reluctant to put the campus under ordinary law. But it is trying to do something about students obviously uninterested in learning. Last month the University Council began a crackdown, adopting a "repeater's rule," which expels any engineering student failing two subjects twice or one subject three times. Rector Jesus María Bianco thinks that the reform, modest though it seems, is long overdue. And he intends to make it stick...
...Potter, executive director of the sponsoring Protestant Council, says: "It is not Christ who is being depicted at all. Everyone must make up his own mind about it after he has seen it." Disagreeing with Potter's denial is the Rev. Charles H. Graf, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. "It is the betrayal in the garden, the awful death on the scaffold, Good Friday all the way, but no Easter morn. It is adult but not entertainment; it is a circus but not for children...
...little course. Unlike the retreat, which emphasizes individual meditation and passive attention to sermons, the Cursillo requires active, cooperative participation by all candidates. Thus each course includes one or two "auxiliaries" -veteran Cursillistas who pretend to be there for the first time. They keep discussions going, alert the rector and priest if someone is not entering into the right spirit of the course...