Word: churches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...private-housing stock, some of the most ambitious renovation is being performed -- again -- by community-development corporations, which obtain funds from local governments, financial institutions and religious organizations. In Chicago, Bethel New Life, a Lutheran Church group, has refurbished 321 homes, built a day-care center and saved a crumbling school building. Congressman Joseph Kennedy II of Massachusetts has proposed a bill that would provide $500 million to help nonprofit community groups purchase and rehabilitate low-income housing...
Once more, Washington does not have to bear this burden by itself. The National Academy of Sciences report cites the Zacchaeus Medical Clinic in Washington as a superb example of an inner-city health center that has been funded exclusively by church and community groups and individual donors...
...findings may please skeptics, but the shroud saga is not a major embarrassment for the Roman Catholic Church. Shortly after the earliest known exhibit of the shroud, in 1354, a French bishop declared it to be a fraud. Through subsequent centuries the church refused to confirm its authenticity. The examination that finally discredited the shroud was conducted with the full blessing of the church, in an unusual alliance between honest faith and objective science. When Pope John Paul was informed of the negative report two weeks ago, he ordered, "Publish...
...will be so delighted when we can get back to the traditional schedule of ringing the bell," said Marie Cloutier-Diflo '83, an official at Memorial Church. The bell rings hourly during class times, at 8:40 a.m. Monday through Saturday to announce morning prayers and at 10:55 a.m. for Sunday morning services. A computer is programmed to make sure that the bell rings on time each day, she said...
Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, the minister of the church, decided to hold the recommissioning of the bell until November 6 so it would coincide with the Commemoration of Benefactors and War Dead service, Cloutier-Diflo said...