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...appears that Boston's residents are finally beginning to wake up; of late, South Boston, East Boston and Charlestown residents, alarmed at the padlocking of police and fire stations, have "liberated" them. They need money more than symbols, though, and so they have lately begun to block traffic around the city in an attempt to dramatize their plight. We applaud their actions, and call on others to join them. For a little while it may work, as Boston borrows its way out of immediate trouble...
...time the Covenant service took place on the Boston Common in November, the organization behind it had become primarily the business of Roman Catholics and the independent Black clergy, Rodman said. "The energy for it came from the Catholic Clergy in Charlestown. Decision making around the Covenant became exclusive--although it didn't start out to be," he said, adding that the grass-roots element was largely left out. "From the very beginning communications broke down," said Rodman, who was in the unusual position as a Black minister in a predominantly white, established church. Rodman indicated that the presence...
...pastoral or administrative duties and were unavailable for comment. The steering committee, which consists of Humberto Cardinal Medeiros of the Roman Catholic archdiocese, Bishop Edward G. Carroll of the United Methodist Church, Rabbi Herman Blumberg of the American Jewish Committee, Luster, Fr. Ernest Serino of St. Catherine's in Charlestown, Fr. Walter Waldron of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the South End, and Dr. Virgil Wood, dean of the African-American Institute at Northeastern University, still meets at rotating locations each Thursday to discuss ways to make the Covenant work. As of last February, some 275,000 people...
...Irish influx, mistrusted and resented the destitute and poorly-educated newcomers. They Yankees were shocked by the "dissolutness" of the foreigners--who frequented local taverns--and afraid of the Roman Catholic's allegiance to the Pope. Early one morning, after a band of Protestants burned the Ursuline Convent in Charlestown, an auctioneer from the Old Village hurried from door to door rallying citizens to guard Harvard, for fear the Catholics would burn the College in retaliation...
Along in an unfamiliar country and spurned by their fellow citizens, the Irish turned to the Church. The first immigrants attended Mass in Boston or Charlestown, but within ten years enough Irish lived in Cambridge to support a parish. In 1841, St. John's, the first Roman Catholic church in the city, was dedicated...