The Week

• From a story in the New York Times, February 6: “The violence erupted at 5:20 PM when members of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee formed a flying wedge.” But Salvation Army shock troops quickly beat them back and the Quakers tore their throats out.

• “Does not the name of ‘John’ stand out pre-eminently in the realm of saints — St. John the Apostle, John the Divine, John the Baptist, John Chrysostom, John Bosco, and the Blessed John Fisher? In addition to these, there were 23 popes in the Roman Catholic religion who chose the name of John, more than any other name. So, if we jump the gun and proclaim a saint of our own, we cannot believe that we are committing heresy.” Who are these gun-jumping Johanneans? They are the 300,000 readers of Butcher Workman, monthly magazine of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. Time is short, they say — as one, with one voice, in the January editorial. The Church is slow, they say. And they cannot wait. “Hail to the world, our new saint,” they say (we continue to quote directly), “Saint John Kennedy.”

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• From a story in the New York Times, February 6: “The violence erupted at 5:20 PM when members of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee formed a flying wedge.” But Salvation Army shock troops quickly beat them back and the Quakers tore their throats out.

• “Does not the name of ‘John’ stand out pre-eminently in the realm of saints — St. John the Apostle, John the Divine, John the Baptist, John Chrysostom, John Bosco, and the Blessed John Fisher? In addition to these, there were 23 popes in the Roman Catholic religion who chose the name of John, more than any other name. So, if we jump the gun and proclaim a saint of our own, we cannot believe that we are committing heresy.” Who are these gun-jumping Johanneans? They are the 300,000 readers of Butcher Workman, monthly magazine of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. Time is short, they say — as one, with one voice, in the January editorial. The Church is slow, they say. And they cannot wait. “Hail to the world, our new saint,” they say (we continue to quote directly), “Saint John Kennedy.”