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...mutual esteem, based on the responsibility of democratic life." Cardinal Spellman, the closest U.S. friend of Pope Pius XII, is as American as an apple dumpling - a onetime trolley-car conductor who now holds an airplane pilot's license. During the war, as Military Vicar to the U.S. Armed Forces (and chief of about 5,000 Catholic chaplains) and as a frequent Vatican envoy, he became one of the world's most traveled men (120,000 miles...
...Anglican Church of St. Aidan's at Leeds, England, the vicar was preaching the evensong sermon. In the choir stalls behind him two dozen choirboys sat still as church mice. The absence of fidgeting and whispering was not just good British behavior: the choristers were absorbed in juvenile thrillers-which the vicar had furnished...
Thirty-six-year-old Vicar Peter Mahew said he would rather see boys reading thrillers than bored by a sermon. His parishioners agreed; they supplied stacks of cowboy stories, Edgar Wallace mysteries, schoolboy magazines...
...some churchgoers outside his parish did not approve. One suggested "a better way of dealing with the situation-i.e., by making sermons shorter and more interesting." Replied the vicar: "Our sermons . . . are preached primarily for the benefit of adult members of our congregation. The Faith is too large to be put over in five-minute doses...
...BRIAN HESSION, M.A. Vicar of Holy Trinity Aylesbury, England Chairman Bible Films Los Angeles...