Word: bishop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy Was Shot, Bishop...
Militant students, including some Christians, demonstrated in favor of a military draft. "Our sons are leading the way," declared a Beirut hotel manager last week. "We must get tough." In Tyre, merchants closed their shops in a one-day protest, and the Roman Catholic Bishop of Beirut sent a petition to Parliament demanding "full cooperation with the people of Palestine...
When James Pike, former Episcopal Bishop of California, married for the third time two weeks ago, he was 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...
Married. James A. Pike, 55, iconoclastic Episcopal cleric who resigned as Bishop of the California Diocese in 1966 to pursue philosophical research; and Diane Kennedy, 30, who met Pike two years ago in Berkeley and collaborated with him on his most recent book, The Other Side, an account of his spiritualistic adventures in trying to contact his dead son; she for the first time, he for the third (his first marriage was annulled in 1941, his second ended in divorce); in what Pike termed an "ecumenical Christian service" at a Methodist church in San Jose, Calif...
...leniency was rarely a problem. He sat in judgment of a schizophrenic boy who wrote from a juvenile asylum requesting "weapons, munitions, cameras, explosives and a diamond ring" to overthrow the Nazi regime; of a Catholic priest who dispatched an appeal for a "humane peace" to a Swedish bishop; of an internationally famous biologist who told a friend that he expected the Third Reich to crumble. All were condemned to death. To be sure, Rehse served only as a member on the bench of one of Hitler's most notorious political judges, "Raving Roland" Freisler, who escaped the Allies...