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Years ago, before St. Henry's Roman Catholic Church was built in Pompano Beach, they had a sort of circuit-riding parish in this part of Florida. Mass was celebrated in whatever shelter could be secured, and there was one odd period when the priest said Mass at the Pompano Park Harness Raceway. Then, ten years ago, the diocese found 4½ acres along the Cypress Creek Canal, in an area of warehouses-Waterbed City is just across the street-and a little church was constructed. It has a coral pulpit...
What this parish and its 950 families needed was a parish hall. With a separate facility for bingo, dances, the women's club, the men's club and other functions, the church could get rid of its collapsible chairs and pray from the proper seat of religion, pews. Providentially, in the collection plate on Reynolds' second Christmas at St. Henry's was a check for $20,000. "I had never seen a check for $20,000," he recalls with wonder. He wrote its author, the president of a cement company, a note of gratitude. Four days...
...greeted the Royal Air Force VC10 at the airport, "and she's coming to Lexington!" Ever a Briton, the Queen carried her own black brolly through the drizzle and immediately decamped to Lane's End Farm, the 1,400-acre estate of her host, Horse Breeder William Parish III. A Humble Oil heir, Parish met the Queen while in England for a polo match. Indeed, the theme of the trip was almost entirely equine. Her main sideline back home is the sport of monarchs: she owns 27 Thoroughbreds and came to Kentucky to check out possible 1985 studs...
This unprecedented challenge to corporation sole raises the spectre of "Big Brother" IRS agents examining the odometer on the church station wagon to see if it registers more trave than necessary to make the parish rounds (Though even Moon partisans admit that the church converts to a group accomidation as the Unification Church did in 1975--it will avoid the potential threat...
...agreed with the statement that "the country is in deep and serious trouble," while whites just as strongly (33% to 60%) disagreed. According to the poll, cheerfulness about the country is directly related to income level. Father Charles B. Woodrich presides over Denver's largest ghetto parish, and operates a breadline for 500 people a day. Declares Woodrich: "Nobody says things are better...