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...Pope Paul VI's Easter-time blast at resigning Catholic priests [April 19] is staggering even to those of us who have become relatively inured to the aberrant nature of papal statements in recent years. If Paul's sentiments represent the church he claims to serve, we former priests are happier somewhere else. Judas, we recall, sold his master for a material profit. One wonders whether any institution in history has so consistently sold out on its principles and ideals as the Roman branch of Christendom-not now for 30 silver pieces, but for prestige, legal immunity...
...government, partly by ordinary citizens who respond to leaflets pointing out that "for 10 francs-the price of a cinema ticket-ten Chilean children can be given an hour's French lesson." Some of the Alliance's more illustrious alumni are Teddy Kennedy, Pope Paul VI and Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato...
History's most famous diet-Worms -is having its 450th anniversary this week, and Roman Catholics in that town on the Rhine have appealed to Pope Paul VI to say a good word for Martin Luther, whose refusal to recant there precipitated the Protestant Reformation. Referring to the Pope's acknowledgment that the Roman Church was partly responsible for the Protestant-Catholic split, the six Worms laymen and clergymen who signed the appeal called for a papal statement "bringing detente in the ever-present tensions regarding the excommunication of Martin Luther...
...Connor, now 30. "Hospitals are such timeless places," he recalls. "It seems like such a dreamlike thing." A sympathetic priest married them quietly. Duryea settled his wife in nearby Santa Clara. A son came along 1½ years later, and the couple named him Paul, after Pope Paul VI. When Duryea was transferred to St. Peter's, 55 miles away, he visited his family mostly on days...
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