Word: worker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French worker-priest movement, one of the century's most exciting and most debated religious experiments, finally died last week after long illness...
...Mission to Paris." Specially trained young priests began to take jobs in factories to pursue their evangelizing mission more effectively; wearing overalls, they held fulltime jobs, said Mass and performed other pastoral duties during off hours. By 1953, it was obvious that something had gone wrong: of almost 150 worker-priests, some 20 had married and left the church while others had joined Communist unions or Redline causes. Pope Pius XII sternly limited les prêtres-ouvriers to three hours of factory life a day, but only a handful submitted; others left the church, and only 25 continued...
...Christianized? Last spring Maurice Cardinal Feltin, Archbishop of Paris, asked permission from the Vatican's Holy Office to revive the worker-priests under strict controls. Back from Rome came a firm no. Last week, as French cardinals and bishops met in Paris to discuss the situation, the Holy Office's confidential directive was published in Le Monde (after an obvious leak, perhaps from a disgruntled French prelate...
...Vice President's trip. A harder-line Communist pressagent is Leonid llyichev, fiftyish, head of the agitprop organization set up to indoctrinate worldwide Communist parties, who as Soviet Foreign Office press briefing officer from 1954-58 liked to harass U.S. newsmen and lecture them: "After all, a newspaper worker is primarily a political worker...
With a new McNaught Syndicate writer-artist team set to pump fresh ink into Joe, his prospects for an early retirement have faded fast. Best guess is that Joe's son will indeed be born. But poor Joe may never see the life as the worker for good causes that Leff had planned. Instead, to earn his living-and contribute to the McNaught Syndicate's income-Joe is more than likely to be tossed back into the ring with the rest of the palookas...