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Prodigal Son. The Cursillo, which may be made only once in a lifetime, is something of a cross between a revival meeting and an extended group therapy session. Students in the three-day course are guided by a priest, a lay leader known as the rector, and ten or twelve veteran Cursillistas (Cursillo graduates), who assist in giving the lectures and helping out with the household chores...
...pays its fair share of Holy Nativity's utility bills, runs its own dances and athletic events, sponsors its own charitable campaigns for overseas missions. Last year it raised $1,250 to help buy a fishing boat for a village in Formosa. So far, Father Minuth or his rector has presided at all the services, but Minuth would like to get his bishop's permission for some of his parishioners to try their hand at delivering the Sunday sermons...
...scared for the future," says 32-year-old Jean Charles Payen, a Sorbonne assistant professor of French literature. "Our last Nobel Prize for science was in 1937. That's alarming. French education is still good, but tomorrow is unsure." Jean Roche, the Sorbonne's rector, says: "We are at the brink...
...event, there is little time for politics. Entrance exams are stiff and scholarship pressures great. "If a student refuses to submit to our discipline," says Antonio Pinilla, rector of the Catholic-influenced University of Lima, "we expel him." At Catholic U. in Buenos Aires, students must attend at least 75% of the lectures-or get out. A student at Andrés Bello in Caracas must pass every subject. If he flunks one, he is allowed two makeup exams; failing these, he is through...
...equipment is hard to come by; qualified instructors are scarce. The schools count heavily on aid from the church, from wealthy parents, and from private businessmen. In Venezuela, the Creole Foundation, formed by Creole Petroleum Corp., recently contributed $50,000 to Caracas' Catholic University. This month the vice rector of Córdoba's Catholic University is on a fund-raising drive in the U.S. and Europe. Among other things, he is discussing a $2,000,000 loan from a private company in California so Córdoba can start work on a new campus...