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Such figures have raised questions, and some tempers, in a region that may be richer in protest songs than ready cash. "Our banana and grapefruit economies can't maintain a gun state," declares Egerton M. Richards, publisher of the staid weekly Vincentian. Other pleas have been Seven more plangent. The St. Vincent opposition paper New Times greeted the arrival of a U.S. training team on the island with an impassioned editorial: "We want roads, and an international airport. We want university scholarships abroad. We want food, technology and cash, not guns, please." Some islanders fear that the presence...
...dispute centers on the amount of control the faculty should have in forming unversity policy, despite St. John's charge that the group is guilty of "unprofessional conduct." The Vincentian Fathers, the Catholic Order which owns and runs St. John's, claim that they alone have the right to decide policy; the union disagrees...
...however, don't seem to see things this way. The bishop of Brocklyn has refused to step into the dispute, while is a recent speech the apostolic delegate to the United States--the Pope's "ambassador"--pointedly advised priests not to be come too involved with labor unions. The vincentian Fathers themselves, are regarded as generally conservative, especially those who control the Eastern Province, which has jurisdiction over St. John...
...Freedom. Operated by the Vincentian Fathers, a congregation noted more for missionary work than scholarship, St. John's has a full-time faculty of 510. About 60 are priests (40 of them Vincentians); most of the rest are Catholic laymen-competent teachers generally but few with national reputations. Even by the standards of other Catholic schools, St. John's teachers were for many years an underprivileged lot. Partly because St. John's has only a small endowment and 90% of its income derives from student fees, faculty pay is the lowest of the ten largest Catholic universities...
...brisk, enthusiastic French priest stepped jauntily ashore in Shanghai to begin his career as a Vincentian missionary. For the next 46 years, Father Adolph Buch kept himself busy teaching, preaching, training young Chinese priests, organizing medical dispensaries, and helping to care for the sick, the poor and the helpless. In the midst of his tasks, he found time to become a collector of butterflies as well...
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