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...Court made the decision after hearing the cases of Guy P. Gillette of Yonkers, N. Y. and Louis A. Negre of Bakersfield, Calif. Gillette is a self-described humanist and Negre is a Roman Catholic who based his opposition to the Indochina war specifically on religious training...
...course, it will be difficult to make Christ real," he admits. "There's this story-it may only be apocryphal-but they say that when George Stevens was directing John Wayne as the Roman centurion in King of Kings, Wayne had this line, 'He truly is the Son of God.' After he muffed it a few times, Stevens told him to say it with awe. So, the next take, Wayne says, ' Aw, he truly is the Son of God.'" Sutherland is suddenly off on this wonderful imitation of John Wayne and all at once J you realize how much...
...McCleavey's body is on display in the parlor of her house, until her son Hal and his friend the undertaker Dennis, who have just stolen a pile of "loot," decide to hide her corpse in a cabinet and to bury in her coffin, with full Roman Catholic death rites, the money they want to hide. Truscott, a Scotland Yard sleuth on the trail of Fay, a nurse who has poisoned Mrs. McCleavey and killed seven successive husbands in one decade, appears on the scene, calls himself the Water Commissioner Inspector, and ferrets out clues about Mrs. McCleavey's death...
Known as Schuyler Hall, this singular bastion of domestic tranquillity for males is operated by Opus Dei (the Work of God), an international organization of zealous Roman Catholic laymen and priests. Best known for its influence in modernizing the economy of Franco Spain, Opus Dei has about 2,000 members in the U.S. Schuyler Hall is the largest of five student residences operated by the organization near American colleges. Although two resident priests celebrate Mass every day, only 60% of Schuyler's 75 residents are Catholic; three are Jewish, and there is one black. More than half the students...
Some young Roman Catholic missionaries are adopting an even more radical posture, arguing that their proper place in unjust societies is at the forefront of economic and social revolution. Some of them, like militant young priests from Spain exiled to work in the missions, take their anger with them. Some find it in the field: while Maryknoll missionaries in Guatemala, Thomas and Marjorie Melville (a priest and nun who later married) actively aided Castroite guerrillas because they felt the Guatemalan Indians were exploited; they were expelled from the country...