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...Roman Catholic St. Mark's in Burlington, Vt. experimented with placing the sanctuary with altar at the crossing of nave and transepts, thus making it visible from three sides. In 1948 the Episcopalians at St. Clement's in Alexandria, Va. placed the altar facing banks of pews. Rector Darby Wood Betts argued that "the Church is first and foremost a family called into being by its Father which is God. Therefore we sit facing one another, rather than looking at the back of one another's heads as does an audience; we are a congregation, those called...
...into the hills to plead with Batista's executioners to spare the life of a young rebel named Fidel Castro. But as Castro turned from liberator to dictator, Pérez Serantes was quick to acknowledge his original error. With him against Castro were Monsignor Eduardo Boza Masvidal, rector of Villanueva University, and 100 Jesuit priests. Supporting Castro were a score of liberal-minded Franciscan fathers, mostly Basque refugees from Franco's Spain...
Christians are having a hard time dying these days as Christians, rather than as pets "put to sleep" by the vet. Such sedated forms of death are the subject of and outrages article in The Living Church by the Rev. Ralph P. Brooks Jr., rector of St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh. When a patient is operated on and found fatally ravaged by cancer, doctors are often inclined to assure with a him (and perhaps his wife as well) their that he fatherthat he will recover. In the case of non-Christians, Pastor Brooks has no quarrel with his benevolent...
...that a young Somali student was beaten unconscious last May when he asked a Russian girl to dance with him. Soviet authorities even called a meeting to persuade African students to deny the story. When Ayih not only refused to cooperate but joined in fresh complaints to the university rector and to the Ministry of Culture, he was expelled from the Soviet Union. Amar and Okonkwo decided to leave...
...border, he is lost to us," says Lieut. Colonel Robert Gayre, chief of Clan Gayre. "Macmillan only remembers he is a Scot when he goes to the U.S., where Scots are popular. In England he wears his old Etonian tie." Adds Edinburgh Royal High School's Rector David Imrie with a mixture of pride and regret: "Our best commodity for export has always been our brains...