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...social hideaway at St. Henry's Catholic Church [AMERICAN SCENE, Oct. 29] is meant for retirees who do not fit into Florida's singles scene or for people like me who are not looking for sex or drugs. If there were more priests like James Reynolds who cared about our loneliness, the church would not have so many apathetic Catholics who feel the church values them only for the money they put in the collection plate each week...
Henry's Hideaway opened without a hitch. Parishioners paid $5 each for membership in the private club, a card that says on the back, "Many people make Henry's Hideaway a happy place by coming. Others by leaving," and the privilege of purchasing beer or wine for $ 1, mixed drinks for $1.25. Father Jim, as Reynolds is called, anticipated the puns, so the first drinkers had to endure the priest's own pre-emptive patter: holy water on the rocks; Blue Nun; we specialize in Christian Brothers. The bar rolled merrily along until midsummer, when a sorehead...
Reynolds says the letter writer, who was not a member of the parish, threatened that the press would hear about Henry's if Henry's was not closed by July 1. The first week in July, the Miami Herald showed up: "Henry's Hideaway is no ordinary, run-of-the-mill bar. In addition to Scotch on the rocks or plain cranberry juice, the thirsty can get a few holy words from the proprietor." Then came the television crews. Dare not to be novel in the dog days of summer, the parishioners quickly learned, getting a little...
...down the canal just beyond. Now and again someone will have a go at the organ, and Father Jim will sing in his tenor, "No more will I go all around the world,/For I have found my world in you!" There are 630 members of Henry's Hideaway...
...Stroot, who is on the membership committee, volunteered that Henry's Hideaway had had to evict only one drunk in the six months it has been open. "He's probably here. I'll point him out. Well, I guess he isn't. He's usually hanging all over that gal there in the back...