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...started my career more than two decades ago as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago, working with churches to help neighborhoods that had been devastated by plant closings. Block by block, we fought to create job-training programs, improve housing conditions and help people live their lives with some measure of dignity. And eventually, I realized that I wasn't just helping other people - through service, I also found a community that embraced me, a church to belong to and the direction I'd been seeking. Through service, I found that my own story fit into...
...recently seen its main sources of revenue—donations, fund-raising, and membership fees—decline during the recession. In 2008, Passim’s financial hurdles, which Scotti attributed in part to lackluster ticket sales, resulted in a 30% staff cut. Club Passim, nestled between Church and Brattle Streets, has been in existence under various guises since it first opened as the jazz venue Club 47 more than five decades ago. Matt Smith, Passim’s manager and booking agent, said that he did not foresee alcohol affecting Passim’s culture...
...assisted CPD with several individuals, who had jumped over the fence between Massachusetts Ave and Linden Street and were having a party. Officers report that CPD handled the remainder of the call. 3/14/09 12:34 a.m.—Officers observed three individuals standing on the steps of Memorial Church. An officer smelled marijuana. The officers conducted a field interview with the individuals. The individuals were sent on their way, and the officers confiscated the marijuana. 3:57 p.m.—Officers were dispatched to take a report of an unwanted guest sleeping in the lobby of the Holyoke...
...some space between himself and the troubles back at headquarters. He landed in Yaoundé, Cameroon, late Tuesday to an adoring crowd of young and old alike, waving Vatican flags and pictures of the white-haired German, who turns 82 next month. Indeed, Africa is where the Roman Catholic Church is expanding most rapidly in the world, typically with a more devout approach to the faith. Over the past three decades, Catholics have tripled in Africa, totaling some 18% of the continent's population; within the next 25 years, African Catholics are expected to outnumber European Catholics...
...course, because the Pope is involved, controversy follows. The perennial source of it for the church in Africa was addressed on the papal plane departing from Rome on Tuesday, as Benedict repeated the Vatican's long-standing opposition to the distribution of condoms, saying it actually hindered the fight against AIDS in Africa. The church says AIDS should be combated through sexual abstinence and reinforcment of the traditional family. But that is the standard Catholic line. In this case, Benedict has the rest of the church hierarchy behind his opinion...