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Rare words for a Catholic priest, and rarer still for a Catholic priest in Spain, where the church has always hewed closely to the gospel according to Franco. But last week throughout Barcelona, one priest after another was echoing Father Laurel's sermon in the wake of the bloody police attack on 120 black-robed priests in Barcelona early this month (TIME, May 20). The clash erupted when the priests staged a march protesting alleged police brutality in connection with anti-government student unrest at Barcelona University...
...congregation in the small Methodist church in Harlem listens attentively as the special Sunday speaker approaches the end of his sermon. He tells them that the church needs money, and that they can help if they come to the Freedom National Bank and deposit their money there. The bank will use the accounts as collateral. Against this collateral it will issue the church fathers the mortgage on the church which they have been refused because of an alledged shortage of mortgage funds...
...general, however, Matthew is a masterpiece of restraint. I am grateful, however, for the one somewhat pyrotechnical sequence in it, which some reviews have objected to. This is the Sermon on the Mount, which is abridged, but still of a length that could not be managed visually without some staging extravagance. The alternation of day and night, good weather and bad, is what Pasolini has directed, brilliantly, I think...
...Morning Prayer and Sermon...
...Evening Prayer and Sermon...