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...casinos. Nonetheless, NCALG's main foot soldiers are so-called traditional-values and pro-family activists. In Louisiana this week Southern Baptists are escorting Grey to rallies around the state. In Michigan Christian Coalition members helped collect 100,000 signatures on petitions to block casinos in Detroit. So far, Roman Catholic churches, with their bingo and Las Vegas nights, have been little help, while main-line Protestant churches just "like to pass resolutions," Grey scoffs. "I don't have time to organize the goddam rear. This is a citizens' movement. We're the 82d Airborne. We've got to land...
...REASON FOR THE DECLINE IN THE influence of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland is the craven unwillingness of the church hierarchy to denounce and excommunicate members of the I.R.A. and its supporters. If the hottest spots in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality, then Hades must be crawling with Irish bishops. JOHN A. BROGAN III Hamburg, Germany...
...tone worthy of Constable. Tone, not line or color, describes the distances and shapes in these studies. Corot painted them directly, with a loaded brush, and they show an extreme sensitivity to atmosphere. Their light is clear and mild, and under it each plane in the jumble of Roman roofs and walls becomes part of a coherent spatial whole that delights your eye; nobody has ever rendered the exact effect of sunlight on stucco more beguilingly than Corot when young...
DIED. JOHN CARDINAL KROL, 85, archbishop; in Philadelphia. During his 27 years of leading the nation's sixth largest Roman Catholic archdiocese, the Polish-American prelate was an opponent of abortion and nuclear weapons, a master builder of some 100 churches and a player in Vatican politics, where he was a force behind the rise of John Paul II to the papacy and an adviser on financial matters...
Charles' larger problem will continue to be his private life. In Britain speculation about whether he and Parker Bowles will marry is obsessive. Constitutionally, there is nothing to stop them. Though Camilla has been reported to be a Roman Catholic, she is not; her former husband is. What Charles would require is his mother's permission; if she refused him, he could appeal to Parliament. As King he could wed without anyone's blessing...