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...serenely authoritarian world of Christian Science, rarely had such a challenge been issued against officials of the Mother Church. Its author is Reginald G. Kerry, 62, a straitlaced former restaurateur and police-and fire-commission member in Santa Barbara, Calif, and devout Scientist for 40 years. In 1973, Kerry came to the Boston headquarters as a consultant on security. He learned about other matters, however, and decided to tell...
Bump Incomes. Kerry put much of the blame on officials. Troubled churches write in for help and their pleas go unanswered, he claimed, and devout practitioners receive abusive letters. The all-powerful five-member Board of Directors, he added, avoids urgent matters. Even so, he said, the directors are paid $54,000 a year-appreciably more than the top executives of larger church groups-and are able to bump their average incomes up to $100,000 a year with copyright and other income as trustees for the estate of Founder Mary Baker Eddy, as well as various additional fees...
...reform follows a drop-off over the past decade of 60% or more in individual confessions, once a weekly or monthly routine for the devout. Says Robert Burns, executive editor of U.S. Catholic magazine: "The church realized it had to do something-the situation was rapidly deteriorating." Among the causes: the waning of the once common belief that confession must always precede Communion, and the spread of more liberal concepts of sin. Another Catholic editor, Commonweal's John Deedy, believes the church is already "well down the road" toward elimination of individual confession. Whether those low-lit "reconciliation rooms...
...Janos. "They are not the equal, by far, of the personnel in the Philadelphia Orchestra. But they communicate. They say something." The product is mostly homegrown; 52 players are from Utah, about 70% are Mormons. Jokes Concertmaster Oscar Chausow, formerly with the Chicago Symphony: "I lead the most devout string section in the country...
...redneck?a son of the red-baked Georgia soil without, of course, the racist connotations. Beyond that, he is an earnest Baptist who says that religion is the most important thing in his life. His Southern-style evangelism, showing up in so many of his speeches, irritates the less devout. They are uneasy about a man who uses the word God so easily, so often. He often prays for guidance before making a major decision...