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...debt as of January 1980. "Then they started turning to the churches they hadn't paid much attention to," he said. The Episcopal Diocese did contribute $5000 to the effort, "but not without protest," Rodman said. (Although he did not disclose the extent of the debt, Luster acknowledged that the Covenant is not seeing flush times. "In our zeal and our haste we weren't as frugal as we could have been," he said...
...regularly 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...
...Luster maintains faith that the Covenant will succeed, even if it takes a very long time. "I don't see it as failing, because I've seen a few times when the Covenant has helped people do right and not feel bad about doing right. It was an opportunity to set the climate for people to be as moral and ethical as they possibly could...
...there is disappointment surrounding the Covenant, Luster blames the people who expected it to do too much. "I think people assumed the Covenant was going to be a Band-Aid for a multiplicity of evils," he said. "A covenant is a contract, a vow between a supreme being and a human being, or between human beings...
...Covenant can be nothing more than a way to persuade people to enter into a different kind of relationship--one of respect--regardless of sex or color," Luster said...