Word: parishes
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Women now hold 85 percent of parish ministry positions open to non-clergy, but have made few inroads into high-ranking jobs such as diocesan chancellors, canon lawyers or marriage tribunal members. Catholics for a Free Choice, an independent group pushing for gender equality in the church, says women hold 19 percent of the top 5,400 non-clergy posts in the U.S., up just three percent from 1988.Post your opinion on theThe Sexesbulletin board...
...above him is his bishop (Richard Pasco), also faithless but fiercely insistent that his priests honor tradition. Below and to the left of Espy is young Tony Ferris (Adam Kotz), in whom ambition and evangelical zealotry are so dangerously, neurotically mixed. As pastor of a dwindling and dissatisfied slum parish, Espy can find no useful support among colleagues whose responses to the modern spiritual crisis range from inane denial to tormented atheism...
...thirds of Lake Providence and three-quarters of its population, was only $6,536 -- less than half the official poverty level of $14,764 for a family of four and the lowest in the U.S. Two years later, a Children's Defense Fund study found that in East Carroll Parish, where Lake Providence is located, 70.1% of children younger than 18, or 2,409, were living in poverty, the highest rate in the nation -- and this amid staggeringly high rates of infant mortality, teenage pregnancy and drug...
...result, East Carroll Parish lost nearly half its population after 1940, shrinking from more than 19,000 to 9,800 and depriving Lake Providence of potential black leaders -- people like William Jefferson, who left to become a Harvard Law School graduate and a Congressman from New Orleans, and Charles Jones, who is now a member of the state senate...
Though black voters outnumber whites 2 to 1 and constitute majorities in most local government districts as the result of a long-running voting-rights case, their political power is limited. They control the poorly funded town government, but whites outnumber them 6 to 3 on the parish Police Jury (comparable to a county board of supervisors), which controls the bulk of local government spending. Blacks have not capitalized on their political opportunities, says the Rev. C.H. Murray, a Baptist minister, because "there's still a lot of slave mentality here, people thinking they should wait on the Lord...