Word: aidan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well aware that he risked the wrath of his church. So be it. His successor, Bishop C. Kilmer Myers, requested that his clergy not allow Pike to perform any priestly functions in the diocese. Taking up the gauntlet, Pike responded by celebrating Holy Communion at St. Aidan's Church in San Francisco on Christmas Eve. And when he introduced his 30-year-old bride, the congregation burst into applause. Said Pike: "Bishop Myers has no canonical authority to suspend me. I'm as much a member of the diocese...
Parishioners at St. Aidan's Episcopal Church in San Francisco were probably surprised to find themselves celebrating the 150th birthday anniversary of Socialist Philosopher Karl Marx during a Sunday Communion service. But the Rt. Rev. James A. Pike, who officiated, found the idea easy to explain. Marx, figures Pike, who resigned as Bishop of California in 1966, would have several things in common with today's Christian church and vice versa. "Both Christianity and Communism have demythologized themselves eschatologically," the bishop said. "Christians no longer believe in a Second Coming, And the Communists have given up the theory...
They also hired Urban Planning Aidan independent Cambridge planning firm which numbers several Harvard faculty and students among its members---to give them technical planning asistance and two community legal service groups to provide legal advice...