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...even, on occasion, rather conflicting ideologies. "He had a good word to say for everyone who came down the pike," explained an admirer in discussing Cushing's mixed bag of enthusiasms. He was an early, lifelong member of the N.A.A.C.P., and the first Catholic prelate to urge his flock to attend Billy Graham's crusades. He could also praise the anti-Communism of the John Birch Society and write a glowing foreword to a book by the director of the Moral Re-Armament movement...
...only hope is the knowledge that the Father Dollards of this world, although still in the majority, are going to be overtaken by an enlightened clergy who are part of the 20th century and in tune with the needs of the flock...
More than Before. The movement for student involvement within the system has not been a total failure, however, and while there is no precise way of measuring its impact, there will be some. It will be felt unevenly, as students flock to prominent liberal candidates like Senator Charles Goodell and Representative Allard Lowenstein in New York and Senatorial Candidate Adlai Stevenson III in Illinois. Despite the drop in unrealistic enthusiasm, there seems little doubt that more students will be involved in party politics than ever before. At Cornell University, for instance, Government Professor Peter Sharfman says that without the recess...
...American approach to an American problem," said Dollard. "Traditionally, a person with a baptism record has the right of membership in a parish. I'm not impressed by that any more. People have got to pay to get into this outfit from now on." The reaction of the flock, which was probably more bothered by the coercion than by the $8 bite, was decisive if not generous. Church membership since the change has dropped from 850 families...
After 26 years as Boston's archbishop, ailing Richard Cardinal Cushing, 75, was helped up the steps of Holy Cross Cathedral for the two-hour ceremonial installation of his successor, Archbishop Humberto S. Medeiros. In what he called "a kind of farewell" to his flock of 1,900,000, the cardinal acknowledged that he had "never dreamed that God in his providence would allow me the privilege of presiding at the installation of my successor. I consider it a special sign of his goodness that he spared me to this...