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The article reports on the removal of ex-Vicar William Bryn Thomas from the Church of England in London, England because of adultery. Sunday school teacher Elsie Brandy and other witnesses have revealed the adulterous acts committed by the vicar. It notes that the 30-year career of Thomas as a cleric has been ended by holding a formal unfrocking ceremony in Southwark Cathedral.

The article offers information on reverend Daniel C. Maguire, who contrary to the Roman Catholic norms wanted to marry, but was determined to win papal permission-beforehand. He happened to be a moral theology teacher at the Catholic University of America (CU) in Washington, D.C. And, he wanted to retain his position even after marriage. To get rid of this difficulty, Maguire started teaching political and international ethics at Milwaukee's Marquette University.

The article investigates the reason behind resignation of priests and nuns from the service of the church. The Vatican has admitted that it has 10,000 requests from priests asking to be exempted from their vows. Jesuit Sociologist Eugene Schallert has compiled a study on departed priests from their duties. Former Jesuit Eugene C. Bianchi is now married and teaching theology at Emory University in Atlanta. It also mentions priest Martin Luther's defiance of the church authority.

Presents a narrative of the author regarding the future of Catholic Church in the U.S. Information on the personal life of the author; Examples quoted by the author to highlight lack of integrity in the church; Problems faced by bishops and religious clerics who abandoned priesthood; Classification of American Roman clergy in the country; Reasons for the author's indifferent approach towards the Church; View that the tendency among the rank and file liberal Catholics is to see their growing influence over the hierarchy as a favorable development.

Discusses the debate on the recovered French provinces of Alsace-Lorraine in the Chamber of Deputies. List of complaints and suggested remedies to the proposed division of labor; Unrest and discontent resulting the attacks on the autonomists; Contrast between the confessional schools of Alsace-Lorraine and the laic schools of the interior of France; Theoretical bilingualism that put official emphasis on French over the traditional use of the dialects; Problem of administration interwoven with those of religion and language.

It is nearly half a century since French leader Leon Gambetta, in one of the famous speeches of French history, cried "Clericalism--that is the enemy." He meant that the Catholic church in France was the enemy of the republic, the bulwark of the effort to restore the monarchy; and he was right. In the intervening fifty years the unholy alliance between the church and reaction has never ceased to cast a baleful shadow over French politics. It used to be said that whenever a radical deputy could think of nothing else to do he could win votes by baiting the cure, and the records bear it out. Almost the only bond of union that has kept together the amorphous party called in France "Radical Socialist," which has dominated French politics for two decades, is its consistent anti-clericalism. So when the cardinals of France threw down the gage of battle to Premier Herriot a few weeks ago they gave him an issue on which he was sure to win.

The article reports that U.S. bishop Bernard M. Kelly has resigned from the active ministry as he is frustrated with the majority of his fellow bishops, who are more concerned with Communion in the hand than the war in Vietnam. Kelly said he was in distress over the fact that churchmen have nothing to say about the destruction of human life in Laos.

The article focuses on the secular life of the U.S. Roman Catholic priests who have left priesthood. It states that former priests have faced new life in the secular world bearing increased self-assurance. However, former priests find difficulty in looking for jobs since their theological training is not considered as a saleable commodity. Meanwhile, most of the former priests did not felt resentment toward the church and even believed that they are Catholics in good position.

The article highlights the stories of priests who abandoned their vow of celibacy to enter marriage life in the U.S. It features the two Jesuit priests Reverent Edward J. Sponga and Reverent Joseph F. Mulligan. It mentions that Sponga will marry Mary Ellen Barrett, a nurse at a Roman Catholic hospital at Darby in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The article reports on the call of the Second Vatican Council for change in the Roman Catholic Church. It highlights the radical questioning of the doctrines in the Netherlands. It presents the attacks of the Dutch theologians on the traditional teachings of contraception and clerical celibacy. Rev. Joos Arts, the priest editor of a Catholic weekly called De Nieuwe Linie, seeks for the rethinking of all the basics of Christianity and for breaking the formal dogma of the Catholic Church.

One of the standard debates among the learned economists is whether real wages have risen during the past generation. It was generally conceded that they had, until Paul Douglas, after profound statistical research, came forward, shortly after the war, to announce that they had not. Indeed, that they had fallen. Certain subsequent studies supported him, while others refuted him. The wrangle has since been general. Researcher Douglas has recently brought his calculations up through 1923. He concludes that if the cost of living for the decade 1890 to 1899 be represented by the index number 100, the cost of living in the year 1923 works out to an index number of 281.