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ARNOLD TOYNBEE, British historian: Chinese Emperor Kao-Tsu (founder of the Han dynasty in the 2nd century B.C.) and Roman Emperor Augustus each gave to millions unity and peace that lasted because their policies were based on moderation which won consent. Thus they repaired the breakdown of the coercive unity briefly imposed by their unsuccessful predecessors, Shih Wang-ti and Julius Caesar...
Perón alienated the pious masses in 1955 when he challenged the Roman Catholic Church. He ended religious instruction in the schools, permitted divorce and took steps to legalize bordellos. After 100,000 Catholics demonstrated against these measures in June 1955, the Peronistas retaliated by sacking and burning some of the most beautiful churches in Buenos Aires. The Vatican responded by excommunicating him, a banishment it did not lift until eight years later when he confessed that he had erred by acting against the church...
Patrick Flores, 44. He tried to quit school twice but returned at his parents' urging. In 1970 Flores, son of a migrant worker, became the first Mexican American to be named a Roman Catholic bishop. One of nine children, he grew up near Houston, graduated from St. Mary's Seminary there, was ordained...
Salvatore Polizzi, 43. No mere pulpit priest, the associate pastor of St. Ambrose Roman Catholic Church in St. Louis spends most of his time on the streets of the Hill, the city's Italian district. Raised in St. Louis, Polizzi saw the beginnings of decay in the neighborhood and in 1964 formed Hill 2000-"because we plan on the Hill's being right here in the year 2000." Since then the neighborhood improvement organization has planted trees, renovated dozens of old homes to be sold cut-rate to young families, and run a popular educational summer youth program...
...documentary is not as sharply edited as it might be. It is at its best when it is showing the Strattons trying to pick up the pieces of their life. A Roman Catholic and a self-disciplined man who worked his way through college, the commander grouses good-naturedly, but with an undercurrent of emotion, about long hair, pop-music Masses at church and the pubic hair that has sprouted in Playboy's gatefold since he left. He is tender and tentative as he tries to get to know his kids again, tries to fit himself back into...