Word: churches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...annual meeting, at Christ's Church on Garden Street, the group outlined its agenda for 1989 with speeches and a presentation on city architecture...
...letter." The directive, issued by the Vatican's doctrinal congregation on Oct. 30, 1986, was approved by Pope John Paul and dispatched to all Roman Catholic bishops around the world. In it, Rome ordered them to withdraw support from any organization that is either "ambiguous" or opposed to the church's teaching that homosexual behavior is sinful. Any hint of endorsement for gay liberation groups, warned Rome, "can be gravely misinterpreted." In particular, allowing them to meet in Catholic churches or schools was deemed "misleading and often scandalous...
Rome's ruling and Dignity's equally blunt response forced the hand of the U.S. hierarchy. Since then, 20 of the country's 187 dioceses have banished Dignity meetings from church premises. Among dioceses with large homosexual populations, the last holdout was San Francisco. But early in November that city's Archbishop, John Quinn, finally summoned the local Dignity leaders to a polite showdown. When they stood by their gay-is-good policy, he informed them that Dec. 18 will mark the last in a 15-year series of Sunday-night Dignity Masses in the city's Catholic churches. Last...
...Math Department's musical vibrancy is not only suggested on office doors. One math graduate student, when asked if he had musical interests, boasted of his growing prowess at "change-ringing," an experimental technique of ringing church and hand bells according to mathematical permutations...
...Memorial Service will be held for Tom in Memorial Church on Wednesday, November 30 at 11:00 a.m. All are welcome. Contributions in lieu of flowers may be made to: The Jimmy Fund Clinic, Dana Farber Cancer Research Center, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115 in memory of Thomas George Corwin...