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Wrote the Rev. Theodore Bell of St. John's Chapel, Del Monte, Calif., in an open letter to the Episcopal Church Pension Fund...
...could hardly have squeezed better. And on opening night last week, a jam-packed audience in the Lemonader's little opera house in the basement of the (Greenwich) Village Presbyterian Church let him know...
This angry cry from an Episcopal pastor last week was disturbing clergy and laymen in the Episcopal Church and many another denomination. The scandal was an old one: the woefully meager pensions doled out by most churches to retired ministers or their widows. Mostly, the pensions are scaled to the dollar value of a generation or more...
...Hardly one of our laity realizes the disgraceful truth that our Church, the richest communion in the richest land on earth, pays faithful servants who retire because of age an average pension of $76 per month; that she pays those forced by illness into earlier retirement about $65 per month; that she has the coldhearted callousness to pay the aged widows of deceased clergy the miserable pension of $31 monthly...
...Western dioceses a priest died. He was a man of more than average ability, a scholarly man, appointed by his bishop to serve as an examining chaplain ... He retired in poor health at 68 and in a few months died. Our rich, generous and purportedly Christian Church granted his widow a pension of $27.60 per month . . . Our Episcopal Church tells the widow of a priest to live on $6.50 per week ... on less than $1.00 a day. God pity us; for her we need not pray...