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...William Wistar Comfort Copyright © 1918 by Duke University Press 1918 The Priest in Modern French Fiction* William Wistar Comfort President of Haverford College Among the despatches from France there is occasional mention of deeds of bravery or of sacrifice performed by the priests...

...Kate White Copyright © 1919 by Duke University Press 1919 Father Ryan--The Poet-Priest of the South Kate White Ah me! without trying by merely Being gentle and human and tender to Souls astray, what good a priest Can do! Yours ever faithfully. Abram J. Ryan. Saintly souls have intuitions...

...John Milton Cooper, Jr. Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 The Warrior and the Priest Toward a Comparative Perspective on Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson John Milton Cooper, Jr. The biggest difference between views of twentieth century American political history and those...

...Mary Gordon Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Mary Gordon Father Chuck: A Reading of Going My Way and The Bells of St. Mary s, or Why Priests Made Us Crazy I was born and raised a Catholic, and at the very least, by Sartre s definition (you re a Jew if people call you a Jew), I...

... that sainthood is conferred a priori on saintly lives. Hence the embarrassed reaction of Catholic circles to this film. There is also a third category of religious movie, built upon a principle that perhaps represents an advance on Stations-of-the-Cross films and hagiographies. I m talking here about the priest...

...John T. Marcus Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 SOCIAL CATHOLICISM IN POSTWAR FRANCE* John T. Marcus IN 1954 social Catholicism was buried for the third time in France. The priest-workers hope of proving to those at the bottom of the social scale that the Church...

... or denominations, of Candomblé have been re- garded by most priests and by generations of scholars as survivals of primordially African reli- gions. Since the s, however...

... at the places of pilgrim­ ages as the bones of sheep and other animals. From the beginning of the Revolution in 1917, the Church took an active part in organizing opposition to the Bolsheviki. In retaliation many priests were executed or imprisoned. Thousands went into exile when the White armies were finally...

... different when said by a priest who begins each day in prayer than it does when I say it. There is no substitute for being around significant practitioners. Notre Dame was filled with such practitioners. No doubt such practitioners were at Yale, and even in Texas, but I did not notice them and, if I had...

... fast vnto the fyer (E4.V). In the church he meets a priest, rownd visagyd and sum thing son ybrent, who, like Chaucer s Monk, loked not as he were closter pent. In a lengthy discussion (Eyr-6v), priest and narrator concur in disputing the pretensions of an arrogant clergy. And the priest...

... tunities for instruction were limited to family priests acting as tutors, to little schools or seminaries, and to his own efforts. In conse­ quence, Pope must be regarded as a largely self-taught poet. The best and most reliable information about Pope s formal education is the record of his conversations...

... of Brighton. To the Mexican priest in The Labyrin­ thine Ways (1940) the filthy prison into which the anti-clerical government has thrown him seems very much like the rest of the world, a place where people snatched at . . . pleasure and pride in cramped and disagreeable surroundings. Greene is, of course...

... to the preparatory committees for the Second Vatican Council asking them only to consider the question of women priests. Needless to say, nothing came of this initial overture. Perhaps the prelates thought they had gone about as far as they could by allowing four women auditors to attend Council sessions, at which...

... in failure. As a student at college, a seminary student, and as a young priest, Chis­ holm is considered a total failure by everyone except MacNabb, who recognizes his true Christian character. MacNabb sends Chis- 6. Report on Activities, 1942-1945, 18 Sept. 1945, OWI, Historian, RG 208, Box 65, WNRC. 7...

.... This autobiography of a former Jesuit priest, now a practicing psy­ choanalyst and lecturer on psychology, is interesting as a study of a man s explanation of his deeds but not as an exposition of the losing of faith. Dr. Barrett tells why and how he became a member of the So­ ciety of Jesus and why he left...

... in the Cathedral would therefore seem to depend on Eliot s ability to create Thomas Becket s reality through dramatic communica­ tion. Yet toward the end of Part I Becket remains silent as the Women of Canterbury, the four Tempters, and the Priests speak in combined chorus, and during this silence occurs...

... to revealing the racist sins of several priests, indicted the archbishop for his failure to act in the crucial area of race relations. The re­ sponse of the archdiocese was quick: a distinguished monsignor drafted a rebuttal, printed in the journal, which denied the details of the original article, extolled...

... Society was created in much later than others, precisely at the time when the once-small Armenian colony started growing due to the influx of refugees from Russia. The society’s administra- tion was headed by its chairman and the head of the Armenian-Gregorian church community. The first priest...

... and the strange peoples of the Far East and of the Far West. 470 The South Atlantic Quarterly Some of them told of naked savages living in piety, virtue, and happiness, without priests, Bibles, or creeds. Along with the Noble Savage the Chinese Sage became the great critic of European faith and morals. In India...

..., the Church of Humanity and the priests of Humanity would provide the moral force which had been so conspicuously absent since the decay of the medieval Catholic Church. The primary emphasis on science in Comte s writings and the 2 Harrison, The Creed of a Layman (London, 1907), p. 18. 576 The South Atlantic...