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...they are delivered, make you wonder if they are intended to refer to Burton's role in Becket. Control refers to Fiedler as the "acolyte who will one day stab the high priest in the back;" and Burton refers to the warden in the prison as the Archbishop of Canterbury. It's not the right kind of movie for clever allusions. The lines would have been better left...
Revision has been long overdue. First compiled in 1549 by Thomas Cranmer, Edward VI's Archbishop of Canterbury, the Prayer Book was an attempt to combine and simplify the services of the English church in a language understood by the people. Today, however, pastors frequently complain that the Prayer Book's stately, frosty prose is often more of a barrier to prayer than an invitation...
...Paul Was a Rebel." Nor is Viet Nam the only issue that can bring churchly censure down on a priest. Last summer Archbishop Thomas Toolen of Mobile-Birmingham ordered the Edmundite Fathers to transfer Father Maurice Ouellet from a Negro parish in Selma because he had let his rectory serve as a headquarters for the Selma marchers. At the request of Albany's Bishop William Scully, the Franciscans ordered Father Bonaventure O'Brien of St. Bernardine of Siena College to curtail his civil rights work. And last week the Very Rev. Joseph T. Cahill, president of St. John...
...council documents explicitly reject the notion that Catholicism is primarily a juridically organized and hierarchically governed institution; what they assert instead is that the church is above all the people of God, on a journey that will remain incomplete until the second coming of Christ. Says India's Archbishop Eugene D'Souza: "The church's whole approach to the world is one of sincere admiration, not of dominating it but of serving it, not of despising it but of appreciating it, not of condemning it but of strengthening and saving it." Such a new attitude toward...
...year, in early December, U.S. Catholics rose as a body in church to say: "I condemn indecent and immoral motion pictures," and promised not to patronize theaters that consistently showed such films-a pledge that zealous priests and bishops sometimes translated into open threats of boycott. In 1954, Archbishop (now Cardinal) Ritter of St. Louis ordered his Catholics to stay away from all future shows at theaters that exhibited the Legion-denounced The French Line, starring Jane Russell...