Word: churchgoer
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...preliminary draft of which has already been circulated among Holy Trinity's parishioners and sent to clergymen throughout the country. After examining "present-day funeral practice," the commission came to the conclusion "that the historic depths of Christian meaning are increasingly lost to the American, even the regular churchgoer, and that without the interpretation and dramatic support of the simple rites of the church, to receive whatever solace and comfort is available in the despair of death, more and more people look to the funeral director as pastor and priest...
McCarthy: Do you think that a man who is in charge of religious programming might do a better job if he belonged to some church himself and were a regular churchgoer...
Fine is a regular churchgoer (Episcopalian), vice president of the Pennsylvania Council of Churches and a senior warden at his own parish, St. George's, Nanticoke. He says with true Pennsylvania candor: "As a boy, I never missed an opportunity to cut church. But when I became a judge, I felt that a judge should set a good example in his county...
...seldom misses Sunday Mass, although he sometimes cannot pass up a steak on Friday. A dogged churchgoer, Joe calls himself "a good Catholic, but not the kiss-the-book, light-the-candle Catholic...
...United Presbyterian Church, has taught at a Methodist Sunday school, and every year goes on a three-day Roman Catholic retreat. During summers, he preaches what he practices by substituting in the pulpit for vacationing Protestant pastors. But Stewart's own pastor considers him a disappointing churchgoer. Since he started covering the God beat, Frank Stewart has been to his own church just twice...