NEWS & VIEWS:
NEWS & transvestic saints, were legen- now an archaic form, . al- friends, Ann included, accept dary rather than real....
...Francis De(pardon the delay), it wasn't saints, particularly one Un- One can guess, however...
...Cumber,' possibly giver: 'I'm charming,' he says likely that we would have lars today may argue that derived from the German with an exaggerated grin...
...relationship St...
...Flanders, and Uncumber in image of swinging party- to the priesthood, it seems Bullough concedes that scho- England...
...At any no...
...Sales had with Jane DeChanalways such...
...Ambrose is on record The story has been described appeals when they catch up member of the British Labor thus: "She who does not as having the 'unenviable dis- with these paragraphs of party, would have been if a believe is a woman and tinction of being one of the Marian Christy's profile of Labor party had existed in should be designated by the most obviously false and pre- the priest in pin-stripes from Palestine in his time...
...She then dispenses 3:151-52...
...Europe she became known Environmental Protection likely to us that God would So it is that Bullough, a by a variety of names, usually Agency worker who gave him have withheld from the faculty member of California derived from the term libe- a basset hound recently...
...Editorial, June 14] pensible condition of priestbetter part by "trying to im- father but he ordered her to "Coming from Common- hood...
...of a long drooping mustache editors of Commonweal But, frankly, I have no marNot only was the female and a silky curling beard...
...known before 1974...
...Ambrose to support his father then had her crucified...
...But the female father had different ideas...
...sexual purposes") or with remain a virgin, but her wears characterization of " 'The time is approachwitchcraft...
...Ann Blessed Virgin Mary particiState College at Northridge, rata, the deliverer...
...To encourage the saint sidesteps the too-personal down its ecclasiastical nose Western attitudes towards to help them they brought question with more humor...
...at transvestites, but according transvestism...
...Jerome and marriage...
...In despera- weal," McLaughlin respond- happen before the turn of the ting it another way, to strive tion Wilgefortis prayed for ed, "I think I may have that century...
...But though the word 'encumber' without rancor his stringent VIEWS this does not obviate the and its antonym 'disencum- rules about love being a nofact, he declares, that trans- ber' are still used...
...As an octogenarian, to become "more malelike" help, and her prayer was an- carved on my gravestone...
...NEWS & transvestic saints, were legen- now an archaic form, . al- friends, Ann included, accept dary rather than real...
...John McLaughlin, the mutual intensity at an approwere done by a female...
...Apparently,' he says of seems, were imbued with let him tell you of her/him: McLaughlin-Watching that particular twosome, 'they sainthood in the Middle Ages...
...But it probably won't itate the superior sex...
...Put- marry the king...
...better person...
...I'll tal...
...name of her sex, whereas posterous of the pseudo-pious the July 28 Boston Globe: -The Catholic Standard she who believes progresses romances by which simple "Tall, blonde, spectacled and Times of Philadelphia, to perfect manhood, to the Christians have been deceived McLaughlin, who wears im- modestly playing various measure of the adulthood of or regaled' (Butler 1956, peccable pin-stripe grey flan- persons of the Trinity, disChrist...
...In brief, If Christ had intended as men...
...If the thought of marriage was to strive to become a swered by the sudden growth I can incur the wrath of the might intrude on my psyche...
...offerings of oats, although the He wheels into a lengthy to a study in the American Bullough seems especially reasons for this particular gift dissertation about the 'warm' Journal of Sociology for May taken by bearded female are not clear...
...According to tradition were able to maintain the that is, if the cross-dressing Wilgefortis was one of septup- Dr...
...He locates no Germany, Ontcommer in "McLaughlin laughs at the ed that women be admitted male transvestite saints...
...Thus in plays 'hostess' at McLaugh- pation in a priestly office finds in Christian lore num- France she became Livrade, lin's frequent cocktail parties...
...which would be open to erous stories about saintly in Spain Librada, Debarras at He mixes the drinks...
...women who lived and work- Beauvais, Ohnkummer in serves the hors d'oeuvres...
...In a fit of rage her that of some of the Catholic together estimable man, who, St...
...vestism among women was rate, in England Uncumber "Flamboyant McLaughlin, once usually admired in the became the patron saint of whose career as Presidential Ah, Scholarship church and only rarely pun- married women who wanted speech writer has been ished...
...him as "Nixon's hired collar" ing,' he says, 'when the imwho donned male clothes and When her betrothal to the and "the greatest living em- perfect state of celibacy will adopted the role of the male king of Sicily was announced barrassment to American Jes- not be required as an indis-well, she was seeking the Wilgefortis protested to her uits...
...Odds and Ends also to have been at least un- plans, but when the king of Well, I don't know as Mcofficially encouraged...
...many, if not all of these kummer, meaning trouble, is Do McLaughlin's female JOHN DEEDY 23 August 1974: 442...
...The Sicily managed to see his fu- Laughlin has exactly incurred -Malcolm Muggeridge on AJS article by Vern L. Bul- ture bride without her veil he the "wrath" of Common- the Jesus of his youth: "a lough cites some 4th-century refused to proceed with the wears editors, but he may most high-minded and alcounseling of St...
...Bullough's purpose is to rid themselves of their hus- fraught with controversy, The modern Church looks to probe the development of bands...
...She other women at other times...
...In spite of this, nel suits from New York's approved the ordination of with the name of her sex, the she was much venerated, and S. K. Friedman, confirmed 11 women to the Episcopal seductiveness of youth, the as her story traveled across that he 'dates' Ann Dore, an priesthood: "it seems ungarrulousuess of old age...
...Transvestites, it cumber or Wilgefortis...
...In magazine, then I know that riage plans at this time.' " cross-dresser revered in the spite of this her father I must be doing something Middle Ages, she appears pushed on with the marriage right...
...conservatives to whom he if not actually a paid-up point...
...Wilgefortis Press Club in Washington...
...The lets (some sources say non- ex-President's priest, was priate level.' male who cross-dressed-well, tuplets) born to a non-Chris- fielding questions after a lun- "Would McLaughlin, who he lost status, his action being tian ruler of Portugal and his cheon address to the National pays taxes on a reported associated with eroticism (al- Christian wife...
...30,000 annual income, ever legedly "a desire to have early decided to devote her- What did he think, a re- consider leaving the priesteasier access to women for self to Christianity and to porter asked, of Common- hood to marry...
Vol. 100 • August 1974 • No. 19
