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...turn the drive for racial harmony into a people's movement. The other, headed by members of the Roman Catholic clergy and Black Protestant ministers, wanted to stress the role of the organized church in promoting racial justice, Rodman said. The two were called to a meeting by Fr. Michael Groden of the Archdicesan Urban Affairs Office...
...pushed it forward appeared with even less organization. "The reality was," Rodman said, "that in order to get this off the ground you had to have the backing of the hierarchy, as well as the politicians." That support materialized when Humberto Cardinal Medeiros and Bishop Edward G. Carroll, Fr. of the United Methodist Church in Boston, emerged from a meeting to face television cameras. When reporters asked about the fledgling ecumenical movement for improved race relations, the churchmen shook hands and began talking about a "Covenant." "After that happened [there was] a chaotic period of rushing for signatures and getting...
...involved with the Covenant also have full time pastoral or administrative duties and were unavailable for comment. The steering committee, which consists of Humberto Cardinal Medeiros of the Roman Catholic archdiocese, Bishop Edward G. Carroll of the United Methodist Church, Rabbi Herman Blumberg of the American Jewish Committee, Luster, Fr. Ernest Serino of St. Catherine's in Charlestown, Fr. Walter Waldron of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the South End, and Dr. Virgil Wood, dean of the African-American Institute at Northeastern University, still meets at rotating locations each Thursday to discuss ways to make the Covenant work...
...keynote address, Fr. James O'Donohoe, professor of ethics at Boston College and chairman of the Boston Archdiocese Liturgical Commission, told an audience of 150 people that any mass must reflect the individual congregation...
Those hopes were extinguished almost immediately by the Clemson Tigers, whose roster includes such ominous-sounding names as Nnamdi Nwokocha (fr., Nigeria), Obed Ariri (sr., Nigeria), Godwin Ogbueze (sr., Nigeria) and Vincent Chika (fr., Nigeria...