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...Vendetta James McTeigue V, the hero of this dystopic fantasy, is a modern Guy Fawkes, the 17th century Romanist who tried to blow up Parliament. Four centuries later, he is a masked man with a mission: to expose, and explode, the state's dictatorial power. Scripters Andy and Larry Wachowski match their work on The Matrix, fashioning a ripping action yarn that is also a provocative political statement (justifying violence against authority). This V is for Vivid, Vexing and Very good. Petulia Richard Lester Gorgeous, desperately madcap Petulia (Julie Christie) needs a Galahad to rescue her from marriage...
...your July 13 story on Alabama Baptist and Methodist opposition to Governor John Patterson's endorsement of Senator John Kennedy for 1960: the Alabama Baptist and the Methodist Christian Advocate would appear to be far more "determined and power-hungry" than any "Romanist hierarchy" they condemn. As for Senator Kennedy's being "hopelessly dominated by the Catholic hierarchy," one doubts if any Catholic journal has ever dictated to him how he should vote...
...Christian Advocate, official mouthpiece of Alabama's Methodists, denounced Patterson, conceded that Kennedy was a good man but that "the people of Alabama ... do not intend to jeopardize their democratic liberties by opening the doors of the White House to the political machinations of a determined, power-hungry Romanist hierarchy...
...Anglo-Catholic segment in the church, seminarians have recently been getting too Catholic for comfort. Led by Father Everett B. Bosshard, professor of dogmatic theology, most students, the trustees complained, had adopted such Roman Catholic practices as saying the rosary and burning votive candles, were drifting toward such "Romanist" dogma as the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. Last month the trustees fired Father Bosshard only to have the students, 47 to 1, demand his reinstatement. Dean William H. Nes, unable to change the students' viewpoint, resigned himself. The trustees are now looking for a successor. Said Milwaukee...
...aside I might add that my notion of an ideal religion would combine the dignity and the beauty of the Romanist ritual with certain other ingredients: the good taste and the ability of the Unitarians and Episcopalians-a trait not too common to some of the evangelical groups-to mind their own business. I'm proud that I never set myself up to be my brother's keeper, having been sufficiently occupied by the job of being my own keeper. To these add the noble ethics and the splendid tolerance expressed in reformed Judaism; the study of independence...