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...missionaries. According to Methodist Mission headquarters in New York, eight African Methodist pastors have been killed, either shot down by armed white civilians or executed by soldiers after hurried trials. A pastoral letter issued last week by five prominent white Roman Catholic churchmen in Angola, four bishops and one archbishop, denounced terrorism but called for "formation of a more perfect social situation, more supported by justice and charity...
...really the title role in name only: in his drama of the medieval King who idolized his chief counselor and then suffered him to be killed, Anouilh ignored too much that was vital in Becket-his great career as Chancellor, his shift from worldling to ascetic, his clashes, as Archbishop of Canterbury, with Henry. If Anouilh's Henry is not quite a full portrait either, it is for an Olivier a fat part-a touch too fat, for it hides Henry's bone structure. But Olivier catches him in a whole succession of picturesque moments and shifting moods...
...National Association of Manufacturers, and the current fight over aid to parochial schools. The conflict is "very serious," Pearson declared. He reported that Rep. John McCormack (D-Mass.) is privately grumbling that Kennedy is "anti-Catholic." Kennedy, according to Pearson, has described the House Democratic Majority Leader as "the Archbishop of Boston...
...Congress the tide of Catholic pressure was rising fast. Without a word to the President, influential House Majority Leader John McCormack, a Massachusetts Roman Catholic known in Congressional cloakrooms as "Archbishop," came out for parochial school loans. (Montana's Mike Mansfield, Senate Majority Leader and also a Catholic, carefully stayed neutral, told newsmen with a worried smile: "I'm just waiting for the Bells of St. Mary's to peal.") The 99 Catholic Congressmen (twelve in the Senate, 87 in the House), as well as Protestants from heavily Catholic districts, eyed a growing pile of mail...
...federal assistance to private education as the first evil step toward federal control. New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman claimed in 1949 that "we do not ask nor can we expect public funds to pay for the construction of parochial school buildings." Even in 1955, Boston's Archbishop (now Cardinal) Richard Gushing claimed: "We are not looking for any federal or Government aid to build our schools...