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...spirit." Last year while he was confirming new members at the Holy Innocents' parish in Corte Madera, the clergy and congregation burst into spontaneous singsong. "Dyoso ki-i-yeno mayashi yekatona masi yano ma yenda ya kotani masiki." Pike was perturbed, but he waited to consult a diocesan commission-including a theologian, two psychiatrists, and a parish priest who practices glossolalia-which is preparing a scholarly report on the subject. Then he held his tongue no more...
...bring to church but how much impact you make." Cromey's mission has made its impact with colorful street processions on major church festivals, a wide range of new youth programs. His next project: a storefront submission in the 90%-Negro Hunters Point area. In addition to diocesan funds, Cromey hopes to get financial help from some wealthy suburban parish; he believes that "the suburban churches will have to pay the bills for the Inner City for some time to come...
...Howard University, and five years later became a canon of Washington Cathedral. Until his consecration, Burgess was Archdeacon of Boston and supervisor of the Episcopal City Mission. Burgess was chosen for the suffragan bishopric over four white candidates on the first ballot at a convention of diocesan priests last September...
...informal theological seminary was the bishops' own idea. "Dean" of the school is William Fanning, editor of the New York diocesan weekly, the Catholic News. The ''faculty.'' whose number varies from eight to twelve, included some official council delegates with impressive qualifications for interpreting and expanding the council's meager releases...
...parts of the Mass into the vernacular; yet last winter he issued a strongly worded Apostolic Constitution that forbade priests to write against the use of Latin in the liturgy. "If John is a liberal who is simply making concessions to the Vatican," complains the editor of a Catholic diocesan weekly in the U.S., "give me a conservative who will make a few concessions to the liberals...