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...bathing suit [July 27]: Can anything be more apparent from this episode than that the Roman Catholic hierarchy is using any and every means to control our public life? Pretty soon we won't be able to do anything much in a public way without the permission of Archbishop...
...skillfully elusive commander of the Greek Cypriot underground during four years of bloody strife with the British, Colonel George Grivas was content to let exiled Archbishop Makarios and Greece's Premier Constantine Karamanlis do the political talking. When peace came, the 61-year-old soldier returned to Athens for a hero's welcome, promotion to lieutenant general, a lifetime pension of $300 a month, and a well-earned rest. But it was not long before peace and quiet began to seem to the old soldier to be neglect. The only people who sought him out in his suburban...
Nonetheless, Grivas was tempted. He began talking about making Greece a respected power, no longer "a corpse on which everyone is committing rape." He spoke mysteriously of wanting "a dozen butcher hooks to hang a dozen capitalists." He grumbled that Archbishop Makarios was not consulting him about events in Cyprus. Stunned Greek Cypriots began getting anonymous letters denouncing the archbishop as a deserter. Grivas now rejects the Anglo-Greco-Turkish truce agreements entirely, disclosed that he has sent a secret circular advising his former EOKA terrorist lieutenants that the settlement was "against the best interests of the Greek Cypriot people...
...reassuring to have such a staunch protector of morals as Archbishop Byrne. Now if we can just elect a Roman Catholic President and a majority of Hail Mary Senators and Congressmen, this protection may well be extended to Protestants...
Each time I read an article similar to yours concerning Sue Ingersoll and Archbishop Byrne, I am less disturbed over the fact that I and thousands of others are "falling away" from the Catholic Church each year...