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Concerning your May 13 report on the third plenary assembly of the French Catholic Church: as a Catholic, I see no inconvenience in allowing French priests to earn their living in secular jobs which are not incompatible with their religious activities. St. Paul, the Master's best priest and...
Policy of Grandeur. Raymond Aron, the Walter Lippmann of France, who writes in the conservative Figaro, has now changed his mind about continuing to be tough in Algeria, believes loss of the empire is inescapable in the near future because "in 'the long run a country cannot play a...
There is his agnostic doctor who offers Kansdorf morphine and a mercy killing. The doctor's wife had married him on the rebound when the man she really loved jilted her. This erstwhile suitor in turn became a Dominican friar, and to him Author Stolpe devotes a lengthy subplot...
France & Purity. The ending is, nevertheless, edifying. The cardinal collapses while celebrating Mass, and dies. With his last words he says to Abbé Mas: "Be happy in the Lord." And "in that moment the abbe found his vocation again . . . The old man . . . on whom miracles had long palled had...
Since we were accepted by Harvard, our favorite pastime has been beating systems--big systems, little systems, any old system. But we must admit that this pastime, which sometimes becomes a vocation, is an all-too-recent acquisition. This admission is made with some nostalgia for the good old days...