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...many bishops are treating parishes as if they were Starbucks franchises. It's about more than money.' CHRISTINE SCHENK, a Cleveland-area nun, denouncing a spate of church closures due to depopulation and financial strains...
...Memorial Church seems, at first glance, to be a vestige of Harvard’s Puritan roots. The austere brick façade evokes the covenanted communities of New England from which Harvard men used to flock. Accordingly, Memorial Church is Protestant...
...student body has changed drastically over the years, but this anachronism, as Pusey Minister Peter J. Gomes called it in 1973, still remains. To reflect the diverse array of faiths on campus and act as an inclusive home for religious life at Harvard, Memorial Church should become a solely interfaith space...
...controversially made morning prayers voluntary, branding the university as “Godless Harvard” for years to come. Current undergraduates hail from 80 countries with faiths ranging from Buddhism to Zoroastrianism. There are 29 chaplaincies and 30 religious student organizations on campus. Yet there is only one church and one minister to preside over major university events: Both are Protestant...
...Memorial Church become such a central religious institution at Harvard? While the history of Harvard has always been intertwined with Protestantism, Harvard was not founded simply as a Puritan seminary. From the beginning, Harvard had no institutional affiliation with a denomination. The installation of lawyer John Leverett as university president in 1708 was a testament to Harvard’s secular—rather than religious—roots...