Word: vicar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bishop came on like a thunderclap. Last January, when Johannes Mathias Gijsen, 39, was named to the see from the rectorate of an old-folks home, hardly anyone knew who he was. They soon found out. In the next six months, Gijsen sacked his deputy bishop and two vicar generals. He issued a ukase telling his pastoral council that it would have to follow whatever policy he laid down. That policy included a strict stand against birth control, opposition to any democratic procedures in the church, and a stand on abortion more rigid than that adopted by his fellow bishops...
Alan Bates (The Fixer, Women in Love) is an actor of supreme craftsmanship, but here he is strangely irresolute. The part calls for him to perform a couple of vaudeville turns, imitating the Mitteleuropäischer doctor who first diagnosed the child's brain damage and a batty vicar who tries to help. Bates pushes for the comedy as he does for almost every other emotion, and the strain shows. Miss Suzman, who last appeared as Alexandra in Nicholas and Alexandra, is good when Sheila is tough and tart but bad when she is tender. When she recalls finding...
...scent of the devil is in the air, said the vicar of Miguel Pereira, as more than 100 women from all over Brazil gathered last week in this scenic, peaceful mountain town northwest of Rio de Janeiro. A smirking TV crew crowded into the local beauty shop, where business was booming. "No reason to get concerned over this conference," jeered a Miguel Pereira attorney. "It's mostly for women to give vent to their vanity." Sniffed a local garbage man: "If they want equality, let them collect garbage...
...whether Paul would step down (65% said no), and Il Mondo suggested waggishly that an unnamed cardinal was making book on the question. There are good reasons for Paul's retirement to be doubtful. For one thing, it would tend to reduce the office of Christ's Vicar on Earth by giving it a Protestant-style, temporal term. For another, what is there for a Pope emeritus to do? Celestine planned to retire to a monastery, but his successor imprisoned him in his castle until his death...
...Vicar Monick, baptism is a sacrament of rebirth that profits not only the newly baptized, but those "on the far side of Christ" who have seen their hopes crushed-as in the upheavals and violence of the '60s-and need their faith reaffirmed. To express all this symbolically through environmental theater, Monick worked for two months with the event's directors, Kevin O'Connor, a Roman Catholic, and Gordon Stewart, a Presbyterian. One nice touch they devised to dramatize the rebirth theme: during the baptism, members of the cast circulated among the worshipers washing the mud from...