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Most began with the same salutation: "Sister/Bro. Americans--" And each came from the same E. 162 St. New York address and from the same man. 162nd St., it turns out, is in the South Bronx, and Henry Ratliff, a 66-year old retired Methodist minister, lives in a rooming house there, commuting daily to the Lower Manhattan offices of the city welfare department, where he is a caseworker...
Ratliff's philosophy doesn't vary much either--his preoccupations include the environment, arms control and civil liberties, but he also has a strong nostalgic bent, recommending regularly the pastoral virtues perhaps closer to his San Antonio birthplace than his current inner-city home. The child of a Methodist minister, the grandson of a circuit-riding preacher, Ratliff says he was exposed early to the fight for social justice--"back in the '30s, my parents always voted the straight Socialist ticket, and they pioneered in trying to get the whites and Blacks to work together," a task Ratliff...
Ward 8, Precinct 5. Residents of 29 Garden St., 20 Walker St., Sheperd House, 60 Walker St. and Coggeshall vote at the Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church...
...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 the buttons...
...people most 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...