Religion: At Graymoor

In his monk's cell, high on a hill 50 miles north of Manhattan, sat a venerable man in the brown robes of a Franciscan. After reading proofs of his recently finished autobiography, Father Paul went to bed. In the still hours of the morning, a sickness of his heart awakened him. An hour later, Death had come to the Very Rev. Paul James Francis, 77, founder and Superior General of the Society .of the Atonement.

The Rev. Lewis Thomas Wattson he was called 46 years ago, when he was a minister of the Episcopal Church. Within the framework of that church he...

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