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...missionary money. Last week, in a report announcing a deficit of $1.200,000 for this year and last, National Episcopal Treasurer Lewis Battelle Franklin revealed that only 4? out of every dollar given the church had been used for missions. Mildly he noted that "pressure of parochial and diocesan needs has caused a widespread retention of a far larger part of the total money given than is justified...
Assuming that a good Episcopalian should be glad to give 1? to his church as a thank offering after every meal. Bishop Stewart calculated that "Bishop's Pence" might bring in $400,000 a year, revolutionize the diocesan finances. Last week Bishop Stewart had a Bishop's Pence Committee, ready to launch a campaign next month. Penny banks are to be given to families in every parish. When full they are to be collected by "pencemen," deposited in parish churches. Each bank is labeled with a bishop's mitre and bears the words of grace: "Bless...
Arguing the wisdom of making a will and keeping it up to date, The Living Church urged will-makers to remember (heir church as well as their favorite charities. It appended a list of suggestions such as the Bishop's Purse (diocesan charity fund), the Catholic Congress, the Retiring Fund for Deaconesses...
...Roman Catholic diocese of Salt Lake, Utah a new bishop, Rev. James E. Kearney, 48, pastor-organizer in 1928 of the Church of St. Francis Xavier in The Bronx. Iowa-born, Bishop-elect Kearney studied at Teachers College in Manhattan and Catholic University in Washington. He is diocesan superintendent of Bronx schools, lecturer at Good Counsel College in White Plains. In Utah he will succeed another onetime Bronx pastor, Most Rev. John Joseph Mitty, 48, who was appointed last February to be Coadjutor Archbishop of San Francisco (TIME...
Rector Freeman packed no crockery for eleven years. He declined the Bishop Coadjutorship of West Texas and a Chicago church. In 1921 he went to Washington's Epiphany. Two years later there was a diocesan convention in Washington. The Cathedral's executive secretary, Edwin N. Lewis, says that on that fateful day, on the far-off New York Central Lines many an engineer and fireman leaned from his cab to ask: "How's our Bishop running?" Then they learned that Railman Freeman was a bishop...