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...Roman Catholic Church, of course, has always suffered defections from the ranks of its vow-bound servants. But in the past those who left usually went as single spies, not in battalions. The best-known rebels were usually heretics like Luther or prophets ahead of their time, like Hugues Felicite Robert de Lamennais, the 19th century activist French priest whose political liberalism prefigured modern Christian Democratic movements in Europe. Some left in shame, branded as social or spiritual misfits. Others were simply embittered by their personal experience in the church, or were unwilling to meet the stern demands of religious...
...moreover, the church has ordained married converts from the Protestant ministry. Theologically, Pope Paul's critics contend that the church has tended to confuse two separate vocations: priesthood and celibacy. Both are considered gifts of God, but why should they always be given to the same person? A vow of chastity may be necessary for the discipline of a religious order, but is it equally essential for the parish ministry? Why should there not be married priests as well as celibate ones...
...compromise seemed, it enraged both communities. Mobs in Haryana attacked railway stations and burned trains and buses; eight persons died in the rioting. Angry Sikhs hurled stones at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, where elders of the Akali Dal Party released the fasting Sant Fateh Singh from his suicide vow. "My pledge has been fulfilled," murmured the Sant, accepting a glass of orange juice from the temple's head priest. And Chandigarh, named after Chandi, the North Indian equivalent of Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, has lived up to its name...
...opened five new Temples: in Oakland, Los Angeles, New Zealand, Switzerland and London. The Temples -not to be confused with lower-ranking Mormon meeting houses-enabled Europeans for the first time to perform the sacred Mormon Temple rites, such as "endowment" (a vow to live church principles) or "sealing" of marriages "for time and eternity," without traveling to North America. Missions grew from 43 to 89. Mormon dioceses, called "stakes," grew from 191 to 496. Conversions in foreign countries soared. There were 5,000 Mormons in the British Isles the year before McKay took office; there are 78,000 today...
There are some diehard segregationists who refuse to recognize defeat and vow to continue the fight. It is doubtful that they can. Their leaders have so far offered more rhetoric than resistance. Former Gubernatorial Candidate Jimmy Swan called a meeting in Jackson to protest the exploitation of Mississippi schoolchildren by "tyrannical Federal Government bureaucrats." But his call for massive resistance has lost its impact as a battle cry, and the best he could do was urge parents to keep their children out of integrated schools...