Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...page personal horoscopes for a mere $15, the electronic brain taking only a minute to compute a life history that flesh-and-blood astrologers need a week to prepare. Necromancy, the art of communication with the dead, has undergone a rebirth, abetted by California's Episcopal Bishop James Pike, who engaged in a seance at which he claims to have talked with his suicide...
...nilly to Pennsylvania, Colorado, California, Texas, Louisiana, Michigan, Delaware and New Jersey. Tired when he started, he made as many as nine speeches a day. Advance arrangements were sketchy, crowds at some major stops thin or indifferent. In Philadelphia, the sparse crowd gave a bigger hand to Comedian Joey Bishop, a home-town boy who was traveling with Humphrey, than it gave to the candidate. Hecklers turned up at most stops, toting anti-Viet Nam placards ("SHHHAME," said one) and catcalling. Humphrey gamely quipped that "boo" means "I'm for you" in the Sioux language, "but somehow...
...Ever since I became a bishop 20 years ago, I have been homesick for a pulpit," says Bishop Gerald Kennedy, 61, who presides over his church's 262,000-member Southern California-Arizona conference. Kennedy will now have his own flock to tend in addition to his administrative duties. He is taking over the 2,900-member First United Methodist Church in Pasadena, marking the first time an active bishop of the Methodist Church has also led a local congregation. "The local church is the front line, and a bishop needs to be where the action is," says...
...ecclesiastical structure is not so easily swayed. If a priest wants to leave the ministry and marry, he must send a letter to his bishop or the head of his religious order asking for laicization. Even if he is released from ministerial duties, a priest must also apply to the Vatican for a dispensation from his vow of celibacy. Some prelates simply ignore these requests, and Rome has been equally reluctant about dispensing men from vows. As a result, most for mer priests have married without permission, thereby incurring automatic excommunication. Few feel any guilt about doing so. "The church...
...capital punishment and two more Capote teleplays. In news, CBS and NBC will pioneer prime-time shows with a magazine format. CBS's 60 Minutes, to be seen on alternate Tuesdays, will widen the TV news spectrum to include the arts. Among the "guest columnists": Norman Mailer, Bishop Fulton Sheen and British Critic Kenneth Tynan. NBC's First Tuesday, a monthly two-hour program starting in January, will stress aggressive investigative reporting. The goal, says NBC News Vice President Richard Wald, is "insight, not just the slam-bang of things...