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Each Christmastime, the monks of a certain Benedictine abbey in England put whatever talents they may have to work for the entertainment of their brothers. Last Christmas one of them scratched out a collection of cartoons satirizing the cloistered life, and the brethren nearly split their blackrobed sides laughing at themselves. When Roman Catholic Publisher Francis Sheed saw the sketches in England last year, he begged to make a book of them...
...this stand, Segura has become almost as unpopular with many of his fellow Roman Catholics as with Protestants (a British Protestant weekly last month headlined an article on Protestants in Spain: "Pray for Your Brethren Behind the Incense Curtain."). Last week the news from Spain was that the Vatican has curbed crusty old Segura's powers. Rome evidently acted in full understanding with Spain's Dictator, Francisco Franco, whom Segura has often snubbed and attacked for 1) not supporting a Spanish monarchy and 2) allowing the Falange party to be too "anticlerical." The Holy See early this month...
...full weight of Baltimore's powerful Roman Catholic hierarchy was brought to bear against the order. (The patient is not a Catholic, but a member of the Church of the Brethren.) The order "creates a terrifying precedent," complained the archdiocese's official Catholic Review. "An invitation to practice fraud and deceit," charged an anonymous group of Catholic lawyers. Theologian Francis J. Connell of the Catholic University of America denounced the order as "totalitarian, un-American and irreligious." Citing Pius XI ("Public magistrates have no direct power over the bodies of their subjects . . . where no crime has taken place...
...Wherfor have Sir Gawaine and his brethren sworne a greate vow to journee to the Holly Woode, and onloose the fayr Colhumbia, allso to slay the dreadfull dragoun Metr Ogol Dwynma Yer, and anie other of his breede yt they shal finde. Avaunt! eftsoons bee al mal engine full awroke...
...professional Harvardman will often pick the University's most esoteric-sounding courses, like Chinese 10, Semitic A, and Slavic 145, just to impress his friends and the people back home. His more realistic brethren usually seek a gut for a fourth course. But to most--those for whom the catalog's offering seems to grow vast as the time remaining in college becomes less and less--the choice of a fourth course is a decision worth a little time and effort...