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...Ransom. Less than two months ago, in a dramatic changing of the guard (TIME, Sept. 21), Cushing turned over his diocese to the Most Reverend Humberto S. Medeiros, an activist bishop who had previously headed the diocese of Brownsville, Texas. "The will to live will be gone," predicted an old friend. Said another: "He's not able to do anything else except be Archbishop of Boston...
...order, hammer blows are heard from the other side. Over there, things are getting very difficult, and it is well-settled that the priest is sometimes more effective than the soldier in holding the fort. And now we have those two new soul brothers, President Richard Nixon and Reverend Billy Graham...
...Debbil, he MADE me. You don't like it? Well, what you SEE is what you GET. OOO-WAAH-O!" The sly black face next appears supported by a clerical collar. Now it is the Rev. Leroy of the Church of What's Happening Now. "Reverend!" cries an elder. "There's a blue El Dorado illegally parked outside." The good pastor favors the elder with a seraphic grin. "The Lord smiled down on me in last week's raffle...
They seek him here, they seek him there, but Jesuit Priest Daniel J. Berrigan, 49, has become a sort of Scarlet Pimpernel of the antiwar underground. Last week he popped up-uninvited but welcomed-at the First United Methodist Church of Germantown, Pa., to preach peace. The renegade reverend, who last April was supposed to start a 3½-year sentence for destroying draft records, urged the churchgoers to "refuse to pay taxes, and to aid and abet and harbor people like myself so that a solid wall of conscience confronts the warmakers." Before federal agents got wind...
...little bit at a time, then you can come away with some moments that will stay with you a long time. Herbert's characters are fascinating, because they shimmer with the incomprehensibility of every human being, elevated to a higher level: St. Alia of the Knife, the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, Scytale the Face Dancer-each moves in the story with almost mythic import...