Word: barrette
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Familiarity is the most important basis of this community. Edwin Barrett, a member of the ISSP program, said, "I've grown up with black people. I'm accustomed to them. I feel most relaxed when I'm with them. This is the reason most black people cling together...
Married. Edward J. Sponga, 50, No. 1 Jesuit priest of Maryland Province; and Mary Ellen Barrett, 33, a divorced nurse (see RELIGION...
...head of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus, which extends from North Carolina to Ohio, the Very Rev. Edward J. Sponga, 50, was, in effect, the Jesuit equivalent of a bishop. Last week Father Sponga quietly abandoned his vow of celibacy to marry Mary Ellen Barrett, 33, a nurse at a Roman Catholic hospital in the Philadelphia suburb of Darby, Pa., and the divorced mother of three children. In so doing, he became the highest ranking ecclesiastic of the 350 or so priests who have left the Catholic Church in the U.S. within the last two years...
Sponga first met Mrs. Barrett several years ago, when she came to him for spiritual counseling. She was divorced from her husband last February and was granted custody of the children. Although automatically excommunicated for marrying, he insists that he is "still Catholic" in outlook and will continue to attend Mass. "I had to make a decision between those values I had lived as a priest and new values," he says. "It was a question, basically, , of what I wanted as a person. It's not that I reject the values of the priest hood." Nor does he reject...
...which meant late nights at the office for Associate Editor Laurence Barrett as he grappled with the task of writing a cover story on fast-moving Bobby Kennedy. Barrett knew just what the reporters were up against. He began writing about Bobby back in 1964 as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. Among his more harrowing memories is an interview he conducted in a speeding car. Senator Kennedy was driving with one casual hand while the other banged his knee for emphasis. Barrett, his eyes searching for disaster on the road ahead, had an understandably difficult time taking...