Word: groppi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major characters really exists, there are striking similarities between most of them and actual political figures. For example, Francis Rowan, the priest whose freedom Ken Booth seeks by stealing the Unknown Soldier, seems clearly patterned after religious activists of the '60s such as Daniel Berrigan and James Groppi--and in fact, Berrigan is compared to Rowan by name...
Married. The Rev. James E. Groppi, 45, activist Roman Catholic priest who marched for civil rights in the 1960s, against the Viet Nam War in the early 1970s, and later drove a Yellow Cab in Milwaukee to finance his studies at Antioch's Law School; and Margaret Rozga, 30, lecturer and doctoral student in English literature at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee; in a civil ceremony in Las Vegas on April 22. Father Groppi is now excommunicated and banned from performing priestly functions. If the Vatican should give him permission to become a layman, the decree of excommunication...
...appointed six women to distribute Communion and allowed worsinpers to receive the home-baked Communion bread in their hands-contrary to the U.S. inerarchy's ban against the practice. ins adult-education series became a standard stop on the religious Chautauqua circuit for speakers like Activist Priest James Groppi, Feminist Theologian Rosemary Ruether and assorted Protestant scholars. To help inm lead ins renewal, Quinlan expanded an embryo parish council into a vigorous 37-member body and hammered out programs with it in lively meetings that sometimes broke up at 1:30 a.m. Laymen, he counseled, "cannot be intimidated...
...years the Journal was locked in an acrimonious conflict with popular Milwaukee Mayor Henry Maier. The paper's extensive coverage of Father James Groppi's open-housing marches in 1967 and 1968 blurred the mayor's liberal image. When the Journal later criticized the concentration of all Milwaukee's model-cities strategy inside the mayor's circle, Maier proposed antitrust legislation against the Journal Co.'s news empire (it also owns the city's other daily, the morning Sentinel, plus radio, TV and rural cable stations). Yet the paper endorsed...
...just tired of waiting," explained the Rev. James Groppi, the militant priest of Milwaukee's St. Michael's Catholic Church. "It'll be the fourth time a parish has opened up in the black community, and each time I've been bypassed." So, since his archdiocese ignored his request for transfer to a church in the black district, Groppi resigned. His next planned project: studying at the Antioch School of Law. "Apparently," said Groppi, "the church is telling me something. I'll be better able to serve people in the community if I know something...