Word: carrozzo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time of their own-at least the end of their tightfisted, monolithic control of their prosperous church.* This week several thousand members of the sect will receive an angry 13-page letter explaining why six ministers have quit the church since last fall. The letter's author: Alfred Carrozzo, 41, once director of ministers for the western half of the U.S. (Carrozzo has already incorporated his own church-the 20th Century Church of God-for those who want "liberation" from the Armstrongs.) One of Carrozzo's complaints about the Worldwide Church is that its multiple-tithing system sometimes...
...huge assessments are particularly galling to Carrozzo because of the lavish life-styles of the Armstrongs and the fact that the church has built an extravagant auditorium in Pasadena, which may end up costing as much as $24 million. For its opening in April, the Vienna Symphony is being flown over to the tune of an estimated...
...even sorer point to Carrozzo is the church's rigid doctrine forbidding divorce and remarriage. Anyone with a first spouse still living who has married for a second time is considered to be living in adultery, and the price of adultery, Herbert Armstrong has written, is "ETERNAL PUNISHMENT! ETERNALDEATH!" Says Carrozzo: "I have watched many a man and his wife and children weep when I told them they must separate in order to enter the faith...
...what helped to precipitate the departure of Carrozzo and the other ministers is the belief that Garner Ted Armstrong has exempted himself from the church's moral teachings. The Carrozzo letter talked of "a major problem involving one of the evangelists." A separate letter from departing Texas Minister Barry Chase charged "monumental immorality in the highest echelons of this church." What both letters skirted was the increasingly insistent rumor in church circles that Garner Ted, married and the father of three, had been a covert philanderer for many years. After some top churchmen complained to Herbert Armstrong three years...
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