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...recently addressed the Masons' Brotherhood Lodge (subject: ecumenism). In St. Louis, some Holy Name Societies sponsor monthly meetings of Catholics and Protestants to discuss theology, with the groups alternating in choosing the topics. Catholic parent-teacher groups in San Francisco have switched discussions from such themes as "Patron Saint of the Month" to "Communication with Non-Catholic Brothers." And the National Councils of Catholic Men and Women are distributing 20,000 "Grass Roots Ecumenism Kits," which contain six booklets on such topics as Jewish-Christian dialogues...
Smiling but Silent. On opening night, however, the wondering quickly turned to wonder. Seated at the foot of the altar in the Gothic Saint-Pierre Church, Schneider, Serkin and Casals played Beethoven's Trio in E-Flat Major with a passion that made no concession to age. Casals' luminous tone filled the vast church like waves of sunlight, touching the life's breath of the music. At concert's end, the audience of 1,000 rose from the hardwood pews smiling but silent-the only tribute allowed in the church. Later, when the old man walked...
...diamond-studded bands, one to go on each side of her engagement ring. Instead of one bridal bouquet there will be two, one for Luci to throw and one for her to lay-at her request-at the foot of a statue of St. Agatha, a patron saint of nurses. Lady Bird Johnson, who was married on the day she gave her first unequivocal yes, by a pastor she had never met, with a $2.50 ring hastily bought at Sears, Roebuck, says a touch wistfully: "The wedding day will be something beautiful to remember, and I want Luci to have...
...latter-day Rome," Paisley sneered to his followers before marching off to the jail, "once again dips her hands in the blood of saints, and is drunk with the blood of saints." The saint would return, Paisley promised, and even run for Parliament. Within hours, fresh signs blossomed on buildings and sidewalks: "Paisley for Prime Minister." And by week's end, angry mobs of Protestants had taken to the streets, smashing windows, overturning cars, and battling police...
...acts--thus to the Tower. Falsely convicted of open denial of the King's supremacy over the Church, he loses his head. This much is familiar. But, we ask, why? Why does Sir Thomas follow the path of martyrdom that four hundred years later was to make him Saint Thomas? This is the question that Bolt explores in his splendid play and to which I muse essay an answer...