For young French soldiers fighting in Algeria, "to kill becomes a normal game," and conventional rules of warfare are soon forgotten. So testified 35 troubled French army officers last week. They were soldiers of an unusual sort—Roman Catholic priests who as army reservists called to active duty are serving in Algeria not as chaplains but as line officers.
As men loyal to the army, but also disturbed by Christian conscience, they had intended their joint letter for the private reading of their bishops; but their complaint turned up in the liberal French Catholic...
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