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...Sprinkle. Two parties of foreigners reached the entrance to the Siq one day last week, eager to journey the remaining three miles to Petra. The first was a group of 23 Frenchwomen making a Holy Land pilgrimage under the tutelage of a Parisian priest, Abbé Jean Steinmann, 52, vicar of Notre Dame:* the second was a larger group of Italian pilgrims. The French party gaily entered the Siq gorge just as a sprinkle of rain began to fall. Four were traveling in a Land-Rover, the rest on foot...
...famed Biblical specialist, Abbé Steinmann wrote several books on the prophets, but in 1961 his Life of Jesus was placed on the Vatican's Index of banned works, and a year later the church forbade him any further Biblical publications. However, Abbé Steinmann remained vicar of Notre Dame...
...Dominican Order of Friars Preachers, an Iowa-born priest who served for an unprecedented 25 years (from 1930 to 1955) as provincial of the Dominicans' St. Joseph Province, which covers the Eastern U.S., was named in 1954 to a nine-month interim term as the order's vicar-general in Rome; in Manhattan...
Fighting Red Tape. Protestantism can survive, these Episcopal priests argue, only if it can give workable Christian answers to the problems faced by the slums. "This is the place to be," says Harvard-educated Father Cornelius Hastie, 32, vicar of St. James' Church in the Roxbury section of Boston. "If we can't administer to the needs of the impoverished people in the Inner City, then we have nothing to say to anybody." Father Hastie, whose congregation is 90% Negro, battles for his parishioners against city red tape, frequently appears in court to help a worshiper in trouble...
Much of the material is too well known already (e.g. "The Vicar of Bray" and Richard II's lament about the "death of kings") and most of the rest had been better left in darkest obscurity (to wit, "A Ballad to an Absent Friend" by Prince Albert, and Beethoven's variations on "God Save The King...