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...Last week, when Castro labor goons followed up the seizure of the pro-Catholic daily Diario de la Marina by grabbing the independent Prensa Libre, Cuba's largest newspaper, Father Guillermo Sardinas rushed to the paper's office to give his congratulations. Said Sardinas, who is chief chaplain of the rebel army: "It was inconceivable that Prensa Libre should oppose the very nation that made it great." Cuba's other six bishops have kept their own council, and Havana's Manuel Cardinal Arteaga is 80, ill and inactive...
Sins of Weakness. Pastor Kern, 52, is the son of a Pontiac assembly-line worker, a graduate of Sacred Heart Seminary, and a former chaplain in the Catholic Worker movement. He came to Holy Trinity in 1943, was made pastor in 1949. Since he took over, reports Juvenile Court Judge Nathan Kaufman, the area around Holy Trinity Church has had the lowest juvenile delinquency rate of any comparable slum area...
...Terrible Alternative. Unlike the lives of most theologians, Bonhoeffer's life was an extension of his beliefs. He was born with all advantages. His father was a leading doctor and psychiatry professor in Berlin, and his mother was the daughter of Emperor Wilhelm's chaplain...
Died. The Rev. W. H. (Bill) Alexander, 45, strapping, red-haired pastor of Oklahoma City's egg-shaped First Christian Church, onetime chaplain of the Republican National Committee, who ran for the U.S. Senate in 1950 and lost to Democrat Mike Monroney; when his twin-engined plane crashed into a milk truck at Camp Hill, Pa., also killing his wife Marylouise, 36, and their pilot...
Raised as a Roman Catholic, Davis first became seriously interested in Judaism while he was convalescing from his accident, and was much impressed by the Jewish chaplain at San Bernardino's Community Hospital. Several years later, at a charity party for children in San Francisco, he found himself kidding with a young man whom he assumed to be a fellow entertainer. When he turned out to be a Reform rabbi, Davis was delighted. "Everything he said had meaning . . . Our casual conversation began to develop into a deep, soul-searching experience. Once more, my curiosity about Judaism was set aflame...