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...Brother Ignatius Jones, FMS, is a case in point. Brother Ignatius is your basic old-line Catholic teaching brother, which means he is like a priest because he can't get married and has to wear a black-and-white habit that makes him look like a six-foot penguin, although he doesn't have to say Mass every Sunday and instead gets to say things like "Jesus Christ" without having to wrap a sermon around them. Brother Ignatius taught calculus in my high school in New York, and he taught it really well, because everyone learned it really well...
...political run. Centrist party leaders courted Moynihan for two reasons: they thought he was best able to retire Buckley and enrich New York's anemic influence in Congress. The strategy seems sound. For one thing, Moynihan, as a Catholic who attends Mass regularly at Manhattan's St. Ignatius Loyola Church and who understands how middle-income families feel about social issues, could lure back white ethnics who helped elect Buckley...
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...instigator of these changes-all of which were in the spirit of Vatican decrees-was the parish's new pastor, Father Frederic Harrer, now 56. Nonetheless, the new look, especially the crucifix, jolted St. Ignatius' parishioners, many of them policemen, firemen and other civil servants. Some simply quit attending Mass. "I see a lot of faces not around any more" says one parishioner. But most of those who remained came to accept-even favor-the new church interior and other innovations. "When all the changes started I was kind of confused and disillusioned at times," says Public School...
...Father Harrer organized the first Parish Council at St. Ignatius. After a fumbling start with an unwieldy membership of 125, the council has evolved into an active group of 20 of the laity, four priests and three nuns. Their meetings are open to all parishioners and their decisions are not always ones that the pastor would make. Toward the end of the Viet Nam War the council decided to install an American flag beside the altar. "I accepted it although I put myself on record as not being for it," shrugs Harrer. Last year the council sent Walter Kellenberg...