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...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...
What the debate comes down to is two views of papal authority. To Cardinal O'Boyle, the case is clear-cut. Although the encyclical is not an infallible pronouncement, he sees it as an authoritative teaching of the church that must be obeyed. To the dissenters, the fact that the document is not infallible means that it can be rightfully dissented from on grounds of conscience...
...inspiration for the exodus comes from the Rev. Donald Abernathy of the Apostolic Gospel Church of Bell Gardens, a Los Angeles suburb. Last spring he had a series of visions that convinced him that the Los Angeles area would soon be torn apart by an earthquake. In his graphic revelations, Abernathy said, "buildings crumbled, freeways buckled, water gushed up from cracks in the ground and volcanoes erupted in the nearby mountains. Then the destruction moved north toward San Francisco." In two subsequent visions, Abernathy saw an airplane ticket stamped with the word "Atlanta." Taking this as divine direction...
Before leaving California, Abernathy repeated his vision to several other pentecostal congregations. Most of them, too, have decided to move. Last month more than 100 members of a church in Avenal, 50 miles southwest of Fresno, emigrated to Kennett, Mo. A 50-member congregation in Porterville transferred to Independence, Mo. One hundred members of a church in Lompoc also trekked to Georgia. The Rev. Robert Theobold, pastor of the Friendly Bible Apostolic Church at Port Hueneme, plans to resettle his congregation of 90 men, women and children in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Theobold, who claims to have received mystical confirmation of Abernathy...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Arthur Lichtenberger, 68, Presiding Bishop from 1959 to 1965 of the 3.5 million-member Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S. and one of its leading advocates of social reform. Though patient as Job on some matters, Lichtenberger was no middle-of-the-roader on others, urged his flock to join civil rights protest movements and pointedly reminded them that "each of us is involved in the struggle for racial justice by our prayers, our citizenship and our giving...