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...Hargrave Thomas is in the best British tradition of unconventional vicars. In 1947 he publicly an that he saw no reason why unmarried women should be denied the joys of motherhood (his bishop made him take it back). Last year he began holding both Low Church and High Church services on Sunday and banned the reading of the Ten Commandments because of the "fantastic" morality of their "jealous God" (TIME, Feb. 28, 1949). Last week, in his 15th Century Anglican church in the village of Needham Market, Vicar Thomas was at it again. Because he found most hymn tunes "funereal...
...Vicar Thomas insists that there is nothing new about his experiment. The Roman Catholic Mass melody, Missa de Angelis, was once a popular folk dance, says Thomas, and the tune of the Protestant standby, Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending* was a great success a century ago when danced as a hornpipe at Sadler's Wells by a certain Miss Catley. He first got the idea himself as a missionary in Zanzibar some 25 years ago. The natives there, he discovered, flocked to his services when he began fitting hymns to their jungle rhythms...
...instituted the feast of Corpus Christi. He then presented the corporal to the "good people of Orvieto who with much valor and sacrifice saved our person and protected us, thereby fully deserving the honor to protect the Lamb's blood as they saved the Lamb's vicar...
Domingo Massolo had so successfully carried out the public half of his double life, as army officer and Roman Catholic priest, that he had risen to be secretary of the army's Vicar General, was in that job when he surrendered himself...
...years ago, troubled by the crime-crammed, sexy comic books his eight-year-old daughter brought home, Vicar Morris asked himself why comic-book techniques could not be used "to spread decent, healthy Christian ideals and still be amusing and entertaining." With an artist friend he prepared dummies and peddled his plan from publisher to publisher until it was accepted by the huge and profitable Hulton Press, owners of the Picture Post (circ. 1,500,000). Its first issue a fortnight ago was a 750,000-copy sellout. For last week's issue newsdealers had placed cash-backed orders...